Trivia Test for your eyes only!



The eyes are complex organs made up of thousands of individual parts that work together to provide vision. Here is some interesting eye trivia:



• The eye muscles are the most active muscles in the whole body

• Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts

• The eye can process 36,000 bits of information every hour

• Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body

• A normal life-span will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you

• The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need be.

• The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night

• The cornea is approximately the size and thickness of a dime

• A blink of an eye lasts about one tenth of a second

• The average person blinks their eyes about 11,500 times per day or about 4.2 million times per year

• There are only two tissues in your body that do not receive oxygen from your blood — corneas and nails

• The old myth that eating carrots will improve eyesight is TRUE! Carrots contain carotene which our body converts to vitamin A. Vitamin A is necessary for the production of visual purple which helps you see in the dark. Without Vitamin A, you could develop night blindness.