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Earth's day-night line, seen from the International Space Station.
New World
Wednesday, 7/8, 04:54 AM

Why nearly everyone on Earth will be in daylight at once on Wednesday

  • For a brief moment on Wednesday, around midday over Africa and Europe, an estimated 99 percent of the world's people will be in daylight or twilight at the same time.
  • It sounds like a cosmic event, but it is really a fact about geography: almost everyone lives on the same side of the planet.

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