The average blink lasts for about 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 “A game” 24/7.

Eyes heal quickly. With proper care, it only takes about 48 hours

for the eye to repair a corneal scratch.

Seeing is such a big part of everyday life that it requires

about half of the brain to get involved.

Newborns don’t produce tears

Around the world, about 39 million people are blind and roughly 6 times that many have

some kind of vision impairment.

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.