Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.
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All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye's lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
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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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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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There's a woman named Veronica Seider who had vision 20x better than average. She could identify people more than a mile (1.6km) away.
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If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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