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TIL astronauts on the International Space Station see around 15 sunrises and sunsets every day

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aVdN TIL That leopard geckos eat their shed skin, so that predators in the wild do not find it and hunt them down.
9wKQ TIL The Dalai Lama eats meat every other day, and once said “I’m a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian.
G6X4 TIL that more people were killed in the Battle of the Somme (141 days), than died in the American Civil War (4 years, 27 days)
R59l8 TIL about Guinea worm disease, a water borne parasite.
e0m55 TIL there is a species of beetle that lives in ant nests by imitating the sounds of the ant queen. These beetles feed on ant eggs, larvae and adults by piercing their mandibles into the abdomen or other soft part and sucking the contents. There appears to be no benefit to ants from the association.