In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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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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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
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