10 SHOCKING THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT EYES
- Some people who are colorblind can overcome camouflage and distinguish the change in the pattern. Such individuals were used in world war 2 to find and kill the enemies easily.
- That little pink bit in the corner of your eye is what whats left of a third eye lid our ancestors in the ocean had.
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| Thats how our ancestors used that lid (nictitating membrane). |
- Van Gogh had cataracts and that's why his paintings had a lot of blue in them
- The human eye can distinguish between nearly 500 shades of grey not just 50.
- Babies don't actually produce tears until they are about three months old.
- The biggest eye on the planet is about the size of a watermelon and belongs to a giant squid.
- The muscles in your eyes are comparatively the strongest in your body for the job they do.
- A blink takes 0.3 seconds to complete and we blink about once every three seconds. So we spend about 1/10th of our waking lives with our eyes closed excluding while we are sleeping.
- The human eye can detect over 10 million different colors.
- In the right conditions an eye can see a dim candle 14 miles away.
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