Random Eye Facts

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    There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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    Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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    Sectoral Heterochromia
    Sectoral Heterochromia
    Sectoral heterochromia is an eye condition where one part of the iris appears different to the rest. It's generally a result of excessive pigment.
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    The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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    Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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    The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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    Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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