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TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Greetings Infomaniacs,
I am keeping things short today - enjoy some fun facts on
eyes!
Enjoy!
Melissa
Email Melissa: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight."
HINT: (1894-1967), American poet and novelist and an
important figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle
in your body - it allows you to blink five times a second.
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On average, people blink 15,000 times a day. That?s about
10 times per minute, or more than five million times a year.
Women blink more than men.
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Jean-Dominique Bauby, a French journalist suffering from
?locked-in? syndrome, wrote the book ?The Driving Bell and
the Butterfly? by blinking his left eyelid ? the only part
of his body that could move.
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Some bird species, usually flightless birds, have only a
lower eyelid, whereas pigeons use upper and lower lids to
blink. Fish and insects do not have eyelids ? their eyes
are protected by a hardened lens.
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Carrots really do help your eyes. Vitamin A is known to
prevent ?night blindness,? and carrots are loaded with
Vitamin A.
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Carrots were first cultivated in 500 BC in the Mediterranean
regions. The first carrots were purple, white, and yellow.
They were introduced in Europe in the 1600s.
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What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
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QUOTE: "No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight."
ANSWER: Jean Toomer.
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