Biotic Binoculars

One of the most vital and delicate human organ

An organ that reacts to light under different circumstances

A conscious sense organ that allows vision

Its origin dates back to more than 550 million years where patches of photo receptor proteins served as the simplest eyes in unicellular organisms

Let’s plunge in to some interesting facts about eyes

Do you know that the human eye can distinguish about 10 million colors
Did you guys know that the entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet with each eye lash having a life span of about 5 months
The eyeballs stay the same size from birth to death, while your nose and ears continue to grow
An eye is composed of more than 2 million working parts
The eye ball is larger than it looks because only 1/6^th of the eye is exposed
The cornea is the only tissue that has no blood
There are more than 1 million nerve fibers that connect the eye to the brain and eye transplantation is not easy because it would be nearly impossible to reconstruct this amount of network
It is not your brain but your eyes that is responsible for 80% of your memories
It is one of those body parts that heals quickly as it takes less than 48 hours to repair a minor corneal scratch
80% of eye related problems are curable but the world still have a staggering number of 39 million people who are visually challenged
It is very surprising to know that humans and dogs are the only species that understand cues through eyes
Do you know that blind people have the ability to visualize their dream if they weren’t blind
80% percent of what we learn is through our eyes
It is the second most complicated organ after the brain