interesting facts about eyes

1. # your eyes are composed of more than 2 million working parts
2. # we all have microscopic creatures lurking in our eyelashes
3. # the average person blinks 12 times per minute – about 10,000 blinks in an average day
4. # color blind people do see color but only certain colors such as red, green and some blues, also color blindness is more common in males
5. # only 1/6th of your eyeball is exposed to the outside world
6. # the muscles that move the eye are the strongest in the body
7. # your eyes begin to develop 2 weeks after conception
8. # your eyelashes work like windshields to take away the tears that are formed to protect your eyes from drying out
9. # your eyes will never wear out
10. # your eyes are always the same size from birth, but your nose and ears never stop growing
11. # the entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).
12. # the older we are the less tears we produce.