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Things You Might Not Know About Leap Day
Things You Might Not Know About Leap Day
Things You Might Not Know About Leap Day
We have Feb. 29th — otherwise known as Leap Day — every four years to make up for the fact that the Earth doesn’t circle the sun in exactly 365 days. Without that occasional extra day thrown in, our entire calendar and its corresponding seasons would eventually be way off and we’d be celebrating Christmas during bikini weather. But it isn’t just a scientific thing. There’s a lot of lore behind it,