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TIL that astronauts on the International Space Station get 15-16 sunrises and sunsets each day.

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OGZyX TIL Neil Armstrong was filmed as he stepped on the moon with a $2.3 million upside-down camera. Westinghouse built for Apollo 11 a special model that the astronaut deployed by pulling a handle near the ladder he climbed down onto the lunar surface. NASA inverted the image for the TV audience.
nLGd TIL that Nepal is the only country in the world that has a non-quadrilateral flag.
ee66 TIL- In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is considered a simple assault, but biting someone with your false teeth is considered an aggravated assault.
a8NAM TIL that MLB player Marty Bergen, who killed his entire family and himself in 1900, still received a few votes for the Hall of Fame.
g7W7 TIL that when Marie Curie’s body was exhumed it was found that her radium levels were below the acceptable limit. She likely got cancer from her early work in the military, not from her pioneering research into radioactivity.