INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT EYES
Ø Your eyes blinks over 27,397 times in a day.
Ø The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28
grams.
Ø Under the right conditions, the humaneye can
see the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.
Ø The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades
of the gray.
Ø Your eyes can
process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
Ø We should never put
anything in or near our eyes, unless we have a reason to use eye drops.
Ø We would only do
that if our doctor or parent told us to use them.
Ø Blinking helps to
wash tears over our eyeballs.
Ø That keeps them
clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hit our eye, we will blink
automatically.
Ø Our body has some
natural protection for our eyes.
Ø Our eyelashes help
to keep dirt out of our eyes.
Ø Our eyebrows are
made to keep sweat fromrunning into our eyes.
Ø Our eyes are very
important to us, and we must protect them.
Ø We don't want dirt,
sand, splinters or even fingers to get in our eyes.
Ø We don't want our
eyes to get scratched or poked. That could damage our sight!
Ø The study of the
iris of the eye is called iridology.
Ø The shark cornea
has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to ahuman cornea.
Ø The number one
cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.
Ø The eyeball of a
human weighs approximately 28 grams.
Ø The eye of a human
can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
Ø The cornea is the
only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.
Ø The conjunctiva is
a membrane that covers the human eye.
Ø Sailors once
thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.
Ø Research has
indicated that a tie that is on too tight cam increase the risk ofglaucoma in
men.
Ø People generally
read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
Ø Men are able to
read fine print better than women can.
Ø In the United
States, approximately 25,000 eye injuries occur that result in the person
becoming totally blind.
Ø All babies are
colour blind when they are born.
Ø A human eyeball
weighs an ounce.
Ø If the lens in our
eye doesn't work quite right, we can get glasses to help us see. Glasses have
lenses in them that work with our eye's own lens to help us see better.
Ø Babies'eyes do not
produce tears untilthe baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
Ø The reason why your
nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain
into the nose.
Ø The most common
injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.
Ø Some people start
to sneeze if they areexposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye.
Ø The highest
recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour.
Ø It is impossible to
sneeze with your eyes open.
Ø The space between
your eyebrows is called the Glabella.
Ø Inside our eye, at
the back, is a part called the"retina.
Ø "On the retina
are cells called"rods"and"cones."The
Ø Just behind the
pupil is a lens. It is round and flat. It is thicker toward the middle.
Ø Over the front of
our eye is a clear covering called the"conjunctiva."
Ø The white part of
our eye is called the"sclera."At the front, the sclera becomes clear
and is called the"cornea."
Ø Around the pupil is
a colored muscle called the"iris."Our eyes may be BLUE, BROWN, GREEN, GRAY ORBLACK, because that is
the color of the iris.
Ø 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.
Ø Your eyes blinks
over 10,000,000 times a year!
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