Impress your friends next time you’re together… here are a few fun facts to know about your eyes:
- The average blink lasts for 1/10th of a second.
- While it takes some time for most parts of your body to warm up to their full potential, your eyes are on their game game 24/7 – no stretching needed!
- Eyes heal quickly. With proper care, it only takes about 48 hours for the eye to repair a corneal scratch.
- Seeings is such a big part of everyday life that it takes about half of the brain to get involved.
- Newborns don’t produce tears. They make crying sounds, but the tears don’t start flowing until they are about 4-13 weeks old.
- Around the world, about 39 million people are blind and roughly 6 times that many have some kind of vision impairment. Because of this, Rancho Santa Fe Optometry donates a portion of each pair of glasses sold to Optometry Giving Sight. They are a foundation created to training doctors, establishing facilities all over the world and delivering glasses and other tools combat world blindness.
- Doctors have yet to find a way to transplant an eyeball. The optic nerve that connects the eye to the brain is too sensitive to reconstruct successfully.
Look for more Fun Facts next week!