EYES EYES BABY

Nice little facts and related things about our eyes.

¤ Our eyes blink over 27,397 times in a day and that’s over 10,000,000 times a year.

¤ The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.

¤ Under the right conditions, the human eye can see the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.

¤ The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.

¤ Your eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.

¤ The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.

¤ Inside our eye, at the back, is a part called the "retina." On the retina are cells called "rods" and "cones." These rods and cones help us to see colors and light.

¤ 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.

¤ Just behind the pupil is a lens. It is round and flat. It is thicker toward the middle. Around the pupil is a colored muscle called the "iris". Our eyes may be BLUE, BROWN, GREEN, GRAY OR BLACK, because that is the color of the iris.

¤ Over the front of our eye is a clear covering called the "conjunctiva", a membrane that covers the human eye.

¤ The white part of our eye is called the "sclera." At the front, the sclera becomes clear and is called the "cornea."

¤ The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.

¤ The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea.

¤ The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.

¤ 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 number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.

¤ In the United States, approximately 25,000 eye injuries occur that result in the person becoming totally blind.

¤ The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.

¤ Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.

¤ Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight can increase the risk of glaucoma in men.

¤ Men are able to read fine print better than women can.

¤ People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.

¤ All babies are color 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.

¤ It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.