11 Impossibly Cool Facts You May Not Know About Your Eyes

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1. The eye muscle is the fastest reacting muscle in your entire body — it contracts in less than 1/100th of a second!

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The eye muscles all constantly work together so you can blink, focus, and track movement, such as your cute neighbor riding his bike. ;)

2. The first eyes ever to exist were likely a couple of eyespots only able to distinguish between light and dark.

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Eventually, as creatures evolved, eyes were able to focus! A ton of changes took place to make the eye the complex organ it is today.

3. If you had been born with different-colored eyes, you'd be completely heterochromatic.

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There are different degrees of heterochromia, and it's more common in animals (like dogs).

4. There are approximately seven million cones and 130 million rods in your retina that respond to light.

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The former allow you to see color and detail while the latter help you tell white from black! These cells are referred to as photoreceptors.

5. Around 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, everybody had brown eyes, and then the first blue-eyed person was born.

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Can you imagine what his or her parents thought? Oh, and all blue-eyed people in the world are related, according to science.

6. Your eyes can see around 10 million different colors...

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Isn't that awesome? It's too bad dogs can't enjoy this incredible gamut of pigments.

7. ...but if you were part of that 1% of women with a rare genetic mutation, you'd be able to see 100 million colors.

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You'd be tetrachromatic and probably incredibly fun to talk to.

8. Your whole family — and your significant other's — may consist of brown-eyed people, yet you could still have a blue-eyed baby.

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It's all about genetics.

9. Your eye color doesn't set until you turn two.

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Have you noticed babies are always born with a bluish eye color? Well, blame it on the amount of melanin.

10. Feel free to reward your eyes with a trip to a beautiful rose garden, because your eye muscles are always working, like, really, really hard.

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That's right: Eyeing your co-worker's sandwich from across the desk takes a ton of coordination for your eyes, and you don't even know it. Here's a quick run-through of how awesome your ocular muscles are.

11. According to studies, defined limbal rings can make you appear more attractive.

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The limbal ring is the dark, round line around your iris and, apparently, you're more likely to develop a crush on someone who shows them prominently.

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