15 facts about the eyes that will amaze you

1. Brown eyes really blue under the brown pigment. There is even a laser procedure that allows you to turn brown eyes into blue forever.

2. Every 12th males - colorblind.

3. Your eyes will always remain the same size as that at birth, and nose and ears never stop growing.

4. The human eye can perceive only three regions of the spectrum: red, blue and green. Other colors are a combination of these colors.

5. The cornea is so similar to human cornea sharks that the latter is used as a substitute for the operations in the eyes.

6. In an average lifetime, we see about 24 million different images.

7. eyes is transmitted to the brain enormous amount of information every hour. The capacity of this channel is comparable to the channels ISPs large city.

8. Our eyes are focused on about 50 things per second.

9. Maya believed strabismus attractive and tried to make their children were cross-eyed.

10. Schizophrenia can be determined with an accuracy of 98% 3 using conventional test eye movement.

11. People and dogs - the only ones who look for the visual clues in the eyes of others, and the dogs do it just talking to people.

12. Approximately 2% of women have a rare genetic mutation, whereby they observed additional cones of the retina. This allows them to see 100 million colors.

13. Astronauts can not cry in space due to gravity. Tears gathered in little balls and start to pinch the eye

14. Bees in the eyes of the hairs there. They help determine the wind direction and speed.

15. Approximately 65-85% of white cats with blue eyes - deaf.



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