Amazing Facts about eyes

Amazing Facts about eyes

• Only one sixths of the eye’s surface is exposed.
• The eye is a sphere.The eye has a diameter of around 25mm in an adult.The lens of the eye is elastic.
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
• All babies are colour blind when they are born.
• Men are able to read fine print better than women.
• People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
• The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.
• Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

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• The average blink lasts for about 1/10th of a second.You blink about 12 times every minute.
• Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
• Under the right conditions, the human eye can see the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.