General "Did you Know?"s

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Have you ever wondered why Dragon Ball's Tenshinhan has three eyes despite him being human?

There are actually two official statements regarding this:

• In both Daizenshuu 4 and 7 (as well as the updated Chozenshuu 4), Tenshinhan is said to be a descendant of a "Three-eyed Tribe", who themselves were descendants of three-eyed aliens that came to Earth, and that a number of Tenshinhan's unique techniques are due to this distant ancestry.
  
• Meanwhile, in one of his Q & A's for the North American release of Shonen Jump, Toriyama suggested that the eye might be mystical in origin, but the way Toriyama speaks of it doesn't necessarily preclude that Tenshinhan's eye wasn't a remnant of his alien heritage, so much as it is that it may have simply been capable of a lot more, but his training under the Crane Hermit hampered its potential.