It probably goes without saying that the human eye is an amazing organ. It is the second most advanced organ, after the brain! It serves to convert light into nerve impulses and acts as a camera. It is an extremely important sense, as we receive as much as 90 percent of the information from our surroundings with our eyes. Interesting, huh? But we haven't even gotten to the truly amazing facts about the human eye yet! We present to you amazing facts about the human eye.
You've probably heard of many interesting facts about the eye, which surprised you or seemed incredible. But you must not have heard about the facts that we present to you below and that you can listen to in the videos in biology classes.
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Did you know that the human eye can distinguish 500 shades of gray colors and that the eye muscles are the most active of all the muscles in the body (they move hundreds of thousands of times a day!). One of the more fun facts is, yes we cannot sneeze with our eyes open and that they are pirates wore bandages over one eye because they thought it would sharpen their vision in the other. Or to be pupil expands up to 45 percent when you look at someone you love.
One of the more unusual facts is that Babies initially see the world upside down. If you have Brown eyes, you have the most common eye color. The weight of the eye is 8 grams, and the eye is the same size from birth, while, for example, the nose and ears never stop growing. We blink about 17 times in one minute, 14,280 times a day and about 5.2 million times a year!
