Fact about eyes  

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  1. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
     
  • It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
    
  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
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  • Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keeps them clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hit our eye, we will blink automatically.
    
  • Our body has some natural protection for our eyes. Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of our eyes. Our eyebrows are made to keep sweat from running into our eyes.
    
  • The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea.
  • The number one cause of blindness in adults is diabetes.
    
  • The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
    
  • People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
    
  • Men are able to read fine print better than women can.
    
  • All babies are colour blind when they are born.
    
  • Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
    
  • The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose.
    
  • The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.
    
  • Our eyes have many parts. The black part on the front of our eye is called the "pupil." It is really a little hole that opens into the back part of our eyes.