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Astronauts on the International Space Station witness sixteen sunsets and sixteen sunrises every day.

Why it is true

The station orbits Earth at about twenty-eight thousand kilometers per hour, completing one lap around the planet every ninety minutes, resulting in multiple day-night cycles.

Source: ISS Operations

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