Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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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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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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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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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.
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