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Hi! I am Rebecca Breiten and welcome to watch mojo.com.
Today is the rarest day in our calendar. February 29th is a day that occurs only once every four years.
A leap year is when the calendar year is extended to have 366 days adding February 29 to the year.
A Solar year is the time to takes the earth to complete its orbit around the sun about one year, but the actual time it takes for the earth to travel around the sun is in fact a little longer than that about 365 and the quarter days. So the calendar and the solar year do not completely match. A calendar year is a touch shorter than a solar year.
It may not seem like much of a difference but after a few years those extra quarter days in the solar year begin to add up. After four years for example, the four extra quarter days would make the calendar fall behind the solar year by about a date. So every four years, a leap day added to the calendar to allow it to catch to the solar year.
Believe it or not, there a couple of strange traditions pertaining to leap-years
For example legend has a date in back to 5th century Ireland. Women may make marriage proposals only in leap years and in some cases only on February 29. In Greece, it is believe that getting married in a leap year is bad luck.
Anthony, New Mexico is the self proclaimed leap year capital of the world. Every four years since 1988, residents throw a birthday party for people born February 29.
A person born on February 29 may we call a leapling and none leap years these people celebrate their birthdays on the last day of February or the first day of March.
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