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Washington Post article
In 2022, a claim circulated on social media asserting that, on July 8, 99 percent of the worlds population would experience daylight or twilight simultaneously.
EarthSky.org crunched the numbers. At 11:15 Universal time, or 7:15 a.m. Eastern time, on July 8 each year, about 96 percent of the planets population is bathed in at least a bit of sunlight. An additional 3 percent is in astronomical twilight, which occurs when the sun is below the horizon but its glow still illuminates a patch of the sky. This means, 99 percent of Earths nearly 8 billion residents will be on the sunlit side of Earth at the same time. July 8 turns out to be the day that most people around the planet experience daylight at the same time.
This occurs because most of Earths population lives on one side of the planet. It might not look like that on most maps, but thats because the majority of classroom maps are distorted to be population-centric. In reality, the Pacific Ocean occupies virtually half of Earth. When its nighttime there, its daytime for almost all of Earths land masses.
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