1. Eyes are the second most complex organ after the brain.
2. Your eyes start to develop two weeks after you are conceived.
3. A fingerprint has 40 unique characteristics, but an iris has 256; a reason retina scans are increasingly being used for security purposes.
4. To protect our eyes they are positioned in a hollowed eye socket, while eyebrows prevent sweat dripping into your eyes and eyelashes keep dirt out of your eyes.
5. Your eyeballs stay the same size from birth to death, while your nose and ears continue to grow.
6. An eye is composed of more than 2 million working parts.
7. Only 1/6 of the human eyeball is exposed.
8. Corneas are the only tissues that don’t have blood.
9. People who are blind can see their dreams if they weren’t born blind.
10. An eye cannot be transplanted. More than 1 million nerve fibers connect each eye to the brain and currently we’re not able to reconstruct those connections.
Qoute: "An interesting thing about science is that it is true whether you believe it or not" ― Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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