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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If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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When you look up at the blue sky and see white dots flying around, you’re actually seeing your own white blood cells.
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Pirates believed that piercing the ears with such precious metals as silver and gold improved one's eyesight.
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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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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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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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Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.
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