Sun to bring light to 99 percent of world's population at once Saturday

Once in a while, viral memes and outlandish Reddit claims turn out to be true.

In 2022, a claim circulated on social media asserting that, on July 8, 99 percent of the world's population would experience daylight or twilight simultaneously; in other words, only 1 percent of the world's population would be located where it was nighttime.