• Your eyes can distinguish roughly 10 million different colours — more than any camera.
• The cornea is the only part of the human body that has no blood vessels. It gets its oxygen directly from the air.
• On average, you blink about 15–20 times per minute. That adds up to more than 10 000 blinks every day.
• Your eyes contain more than 2 million working parts and are the second most complex organ in the body (after the brain).
• The image that lands on your retina is actually upside-down and backwards. Your brain flips it the right way up in a fraction of a second.
• An adult human eye is about the size of a large grape and weighs approximately 7.5 grams.
• Your eyes never fully stop moving — even when you think you are staring fixedly, they make tiny, rapid movements called microsaccades.
• The iris (the coloured part of the eye) has 256 unique characteristics, making it more distinctive than a fingerprint (which has about 40).
• In complete darkness, a healthy human eye can detect a single candle flame from as far as 2.5 kilometres away under ideal conditions.
• Babies are born with eyes that are almost adult size. Most of the growth of the eye happens in the first few years of life.

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