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Your cornea can heal a scratch in under two days

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Your eyes have significantly better tech support than most computers. The cornea is one of the fastest healing tissues in the human body, highly capable of repairing minor scratches and abrasions in less than two days without you even noticing.

Your cornea can heal a scratch in under two days
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