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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Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.
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If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
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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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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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