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Fact 10 — Size of your eye grows rapidly during the first three years of your life. Thereafter there’s only slight growth until the age of 13. This is partly why we find those photos of big-eyed kittens so darn adorable. They remind us of human children, and we are supposed to become attached to our own children by nature.

1 DAY to Blue Eyes. Are you ready?

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Fact 9 — Brain puts together the images our eyes send as nerve impulses. It makes plenty of corrections, including merging the two images together seamlessly and turning them the right way around. All the processing requires about half of the brain to complete.

2 days to Blue Eyes. Grab your drinks!

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Fact 8 — A-vitamin deficiency can cause blindness in the dark. The vitamin is needed to produce retinal that is an important chemical compound for our night vision.

3 days to Blue Eyes. Get your snacks!

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I recorded some clips back when One Truck Family event was in Bratislava and now had some time to put them together.

Fact 7 — The theoretic resolution of human eye is 576 megapixels, which beats high resolution Nikon D810 DSLR by 540 megapixels. Megapixel isn’t ideal unit to measure human sight with, because the high resolution area of our vision is relatively small area in the middle while rest our field of view is blurry and mainly good for spotting movement.

4 days to Blue Eyes. Fill your tanks!

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Fact 6 — Medicine has come far in solving vision related issues. Roughly 80% of problems related with vision can be prevented or cured. Together we can help in making the number 81%.

5 days to Blue Eyes. Set your NAV’s!

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Fact 5 — The rarest human eye colours are amber, violet and red, all of them being rarer than the green eye colour about 2% of the world population has. Amber eye colour is caused by yellow pigment, violet by partial lack of pigment in the eye that reveals the eye’s blood vessels, red eyes have no pigment at all, revealing the blood vessels completely.

6 days to Blue Eyes. Couple your trailers!

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Fact 3 — Heterochromia is a rare condition where person’s eyes both have a different colour or segments of the iris are different coloured. It affects approximately 6 in 1,000 people.

8 days to Blue Eyes. Paint your trucks!

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Fact 2 — You’ll see objects better in the dark, if you do not look directly at them. This is because there are no rod cells — the cells specialized in night vision — in the centre of the retina.

9 days to Blue Eyes. Tell your friends!

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Fact 1 — Did you know that the origin of blue eye colour can be traced back to single European who first caught the mutation roughly 10,000 years ago?

10 days to Blue Eyes. The countdown begins!

An eye fact each day until 12th of April, the eve of Blue Eyes event.

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Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Andreas!

Something new is coming up on Blue Eyes Discord in just couple of minutes...

Join and see for yourself! https://discord.gg/c322CDC

A long time ago in a container port far, far away...

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Hey everyone!

Blue Eyes is an upcoming charity event in April where the community can drive together for a good cause, Moorfields Eye Charity.

Head over to the Blue Eyes website for more information, including the inspiring backstory of why the organizer, Ollie, is putting together the event.

You are also welcome to join the Blue Eyes Discord to show your support!

See you in April!