Amazing Facts About your Eyes

Know your Eye

1. Nerves connecting each eye to the brain are about 1 million, thus entire eye can't be transplanted. 
2. Eyes first evolved 550 million years ago as Photoreceptors. 
3. The eyes starts developing in 15 days in the womb of the mother. 
4. Iris has more unique characters(256) than fingerprints (40). 
5. Eye is the 2nd most complex organ after brain. 
6. 80% of learnings occurs through eyes. 
7. Eye has 2 million moving parts. 
8. Seeing consumes 50% of brain activity. 
9. Eye has most active muscles of the entire body. 
10. Human eye can see candle flickering 30 miles away on a dark night. 
11. The word eyeball was coined by William Shakespeare. 
12. All babies, irrespective of their race have blue eyes in the womb. 
13. If human eye is digital camera , it would have been 576 megapixels. 
14. Only dog is the animal other than humans to take visual cues while communicating. 
15. Eyes can get sunburned. 
16. People with blue eyes have high tolerance to alcohol. 
17. Smoking reduces night vision. 
18. One can blink up to 5 times in just one sec. 
19. 36000 pieces of information can be processed by the eye in just 1 hour. 
20. No one knows the role of tears while crying. 
21. Eye sees 24 million different images in its life time. 
22. To determine eye colour of someone 4 sec. of eye contact is required. 
23. Human eye can focus at more than 50 things at a time. 
24. We blink less when reading & blink more while talking. 

Reading is slower on computer screen vs on a paper.

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