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Only at the Equator is this true. Light and darkness, or day and night, are less evenly divided the further away from the Equator you go, depending on the season. At the Poles it's either dark(winter) or light (summer) for virtually the entire 24 hour period each day. About half way between the Equator and the Poles, like much of Europe, you have 15 to 16 hours of daylight in summer and equally long nights in winter.

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Q: Why does the earth get roughly twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of night every twenty four hours?
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