Weird Eye Facts
- With over 2 million working parts, the human eye contributes to 85 percent of the knowledge we obtain over our lifetimes. There are many interesting facts about this complex organ
- Up to 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women suffer from colorblindness to some degree. However, 99 percent of colorblind people are only color-deficient, meaning they simply see color in a different way than the normal person does
- We all have microscopic creatures lurking in our eyelashes
- The average person blinks 12 times per minute – about 10,000 blinks on an average day
- Your eyes begin to develop 2 weeks after conception
- The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet.
- Our eyeballs stay the same size from birth