As an optometry center, we know a lot of interesting facts about our eyes. Most of the patients who come in for a routine check-up or to grab their prescription glasses regularly receive fun eye facts from our team. We wanted to highlight 14 interesting eye facts that our expert “eye staff” enjoys.
Don’t Turn A Blind Eye to These Human Eyes Facts
- Your eyes start developing two weeks after conception.
- Because seeing is a huge part of your everyday life, it requires about half of the brain to get involved.
- About 39 million people are blind around the world and about 6 times that amount have some type of vision impairment.
- It would be more than 98 feet in length, if you added up all the eyelashes that are shed by a human in their life. In fact, each eye lash has a life span of about 5 months.
- It’s been extremely difficult for doctors to find a way to transplant an eyeball. Mainly because the optic nerve that connects the eye to the brain is too sensitive to reconstruct successfully.
- From birth to death, your eyeballs stay the same size. Your nose and ears however continue to grow.
- Heterochromia is a condition where a person is born with two different colored eyes.
- An eye is made up of more than 2 million working parts.
- Recessive traits, like green or blue eyes, can still show up in later generations, even if no one in the past few generations of your family have green or blue eyes.
- Corneas are the only tissues that don’t have blood.
- The muscles that control your eyes are the most active muscles in your body.
- We learn most things through our eyes; in fact, our eyesight is so important to our development that 80% of what we learn is through our eyes.
- 80% of vision problems worldwide are avoidable or even curable.
- After the brain, the eyes are the most complex organ.
Those were 14 of our favorite human eyes facts that we know. From these 14, you should be able to have a better appreciation and understanding of how important our eyes and eyesight are. Because the eyes are so important, we recommend regular eye exams to spot problems and conditions before they worsen. Call us today at (310) 325-2000 to schedule an appointment!
