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Your irises work like camera apertures

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Your eyes are basically just wet cameras adjusting to the exposure. The iris is an intricate sphincter muscle that rapidly expands and contracts to control how much light hits the retina, desperately trying to keep you from blinding yourself when you look at your phone at 3 AM.

Your irises work like camera apertures
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