99% of earth’s population in sunlight

Timeanddate.com originally published this article by Konstantin Bikos on July 4, 2022. Reprinted on EarthSky with permission. You might have seen this fascinating tidbit circulating the internet: For a moment each year, on July 8, 99% of the world’s population gets sunlight. Is it true? Konstantin Bikos, lead editor at Timeanddate.com, fact-checks this claim. Same moment of sunlight for 99% of the […]