On Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at 4:57 pm, No Comments »

Ever wanted to know how powerful and amazing your eyes are?
Well here are some amazing facts on the human eye.
- It uses 65% of your brainpower, the most out of any body part
- They can process about 36,000 bits of information an hour
- They are number 2 in the most powerful body parts next to the brain
- Only 1/6 of the eye if showing
- The actual eye is always working and never sleeps
- Controls 85% of all the knowledge you will ever get
- The reason why we blink is to lubricate our eyeballs so they don’t get too dry
- Don’t pull out your eyelids, they protect your eyes from dirt and bacteria
- The approximate weight of a human eyeball is about 28 grams
- Men can read fine print better than women
- You would normally read faster from a sheet of paper then from a computer screen
- The most crucial part of your eye is as delicate as a wet tissue
- The normal person blinks about 10,000 times a day
- The images that are sent to your brain are actually upside down and backwards
- Your eyes adjust in just milliseconds in order to keep balance whenever you move your head
- Your pupil changes in size in order to let in the right amount of light
- The only part of the body that doesn’t contain blood vessels is the cornea
- The average human eye is about 1 inch in diameter
- Blind people can see their dreams as long as they weren’t born blind
- Color blind doesn’t mean they only see black and white , but just that they just can’t see things in as many colors as people who have normal vision