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Eye Facts
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90% of what we learn about the world comes to us through our eyes.
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Your eyes focus on about 50 things per second.
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1/3 of the oxygen we take in goes to our visual system.
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1/4 of all the nutrition we take in goes to feed our visual system.
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Eyes are composed of more than 2 million working parts.
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The eyes have a higher concentration of vitamin C, zinc and lutein than almost any other part of the body.
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The average person blinks 12 times per minute - about 10,000 blinks in an average day.
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Under the right conditions, the human eye can see the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.
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The older we are the less tears we produce.
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Your eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
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Only 1/6th of your eyeball is exposed to the outside world.
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Colour blind people do see color but confuse certain colors in certain conditions.
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Red and Green are the most commonly confused colours among colour blind people.
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Colour blindness is 10 times more common in males than females.
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All babies are colour blind when they are born.
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Your retina contains 120 million rods for "night vision", and 8 million cones that are colour sensitive and work best under daylight conditions.
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Babies donot produce tears in their eyes until they are one to three months old.
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