10 FUN FACTS ABOUT THE EYE BY FELICITY

Well done to Felicity who did this on her own at home- I’m impressed!

NO.1 Eyes began to develop over 550 MILLION YEARS AGO .

NO.2 Did you know that you shed eye lashes? Well we do and we shed OVER 98 feet every 5 months .

NO.3 To protect our eyes they are placed in a hollowed eye socket.

NO.4 Your eye-balls stay the same size from birth till death while your ears and nose are still growing .

NO.5 An eye is preformed with over 1MILLION working parts .

NO.6 The Cornea is the ONLY tissue that does not contain ANY blood.

NO.7 An eye  cannot be transplanted because there are more than 1Million nerve fibres that connect it to the brain.

NO.8 80percent of memories are determined by what you see.

NO.9 People who are blind CAN see dreams only if they born blind.

NO.10 The “Red Eye” appears in photos and sometimes films because of the flash light bounces of the back of the Eye, the Choroid is at the back of the Retina which is rich of blood vessels and THAT is how there is a “Red Eye ” on film or camera .