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Your eyes can distinguish millions of colors

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The incredibly highly advanced photoreceptor cells resting exactly at the very back of the human retina possess phenomenal visual processing capabilities. An ordinary, perfectly healthy eye is highly naturally trained to instantly distinguish between roughly ten million microscopic variations in subtle color hues.

Your eyes can distinguish millions of colors
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