Your eyes can distinguish more than 10 million colors!
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People with blue eyes have higher alcohol tolerance
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You spend about 10% of your waking hours with your eyes closed. How can that be? You are blinking!
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
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Einstein's eyes are kept in a safe in New York City
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Black lemurs are thought to be the only primates, besides humans to have blue eyes
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Bees have five eyes
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The space between your eyebrows is called the nasion
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A giant squid's eye can be as big as a volleyball
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Dolphins sleep with one eye open
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Cats have three eyelids
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Ommatophobia is the fear of eyes
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Green eyes are the rarest color eyes. Only 2% of people have green eyes.
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If the human eye were a camera, it would have 576 megapixels
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All people with blue eyes can trace their genes back to one individual who lived near the Black Sea nearly 10,000 years ago
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Researchers have actually used Tetris (yes, the video game) to treat lazy eye
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Your eyes can get a sunburn
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Blue eyes are typically more sensitive to light
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Some lizards have been known to shoot blood out of their eyes to ward off potential predators
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Eigengrau is the color you see when your eyes are closed (aka brain gray, or literally translated from German it would be "intrinsic/own gray")
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Night vision goggles are green because the human eye can distinguish between more shades of green than any other color
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Carrots don't actually improve your eyesight (at least not any more than any other vegetable). This was a lie propagated by the British during World War II because they didn't want the Germans to find out that British pilots were using radar. Instead, they released a public announcement claiming that the reason for their pilot's incredible accuracy was the high number of carrots that they consumed. It was silly, but people believed it.
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Bono wears glasses because he has glaucoma, not just as a fashion statement
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Your eyebrows are completely replaced every 2 months
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Some women have a genetic mutation that allows them to see millions of more colors/shades (up to 100 million)
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