Did You Know?
- UV Radiation can seriously damage your eyes. Click here to learn more
- A cataract is a cloudiness of the crystalline lens inside the eye.
- Every second, the human retina performs 10 BILLION computer-like calculations!
- Eyes utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.
- Most newborn babies have blue eyes.
- Your eyes blink over 10,000,000 times year!
- The average time between eye blinks is 2.8 seconds.
- Each eyelash has a life span of approximately 5 months.
- Of all the muscles in our body, the eye muscles are the most active.
- Babies cry but do not produce tears until they are 1-3 months old.
- People started to wear glasses in the late 17th century as it was thought to portray class and intellect. As a result, even people who didn’t need glasses to see, began to wear them.
- Early eyeglasses were made of valuable rock crystal quartz in the late 14th century.
