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**What are some surprising facts about leap years? ** ℹ️ 2024 is a leap year with an extra day on Fe

**What are some surprising facts about leap years? ** ℹ️ 2024 is a leap year with an extra day on February 29. **✍️ Here are some interesting facts about leap years and February 29 ⬇️. ** 📍🗓 In his Julian calendar, Julius Caesar introduced the first leap year around 46 B.C., but this calendar had only one rule: Any year evenly divisible by four would be a leap year. That created too many leap years, but the math wasn't tweaked until Pope Gregory XIII introduced his [Gregorian calendar](https://t.me/askmenow/3448) more than 1,500 years later. 📍 All the other months in the Julian calendar have 30 or 31 days, but February lost out to the ego of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus. Under his predecessor Julius Caesar, February had 30 days and the month named after him - July - had 31. August had only 29 days. When Caesar Augustus became Emperor he added two days to 'his' month to make August the same as July. So February lost out to August in the battle of the extra days. 📍 Without an extra day on February 29 nearly every four years, we would lose almost six hours every year. After only 100 years, our [calendar](https://t.me/askmenow/3453) would be off by approximately 24 days. 📍 People born on February 29 are called "__leaplings__" or "__leapers__". 📍 The odds of being born on [a leap day](https://t.me/askmenow/3449) are 1 in about 1500. 📍🔮 [Astrologers](https://t.me/askmenow/3439) believe people born on February 29 have unusual talents 📍🇮🇹🇬🇷🇷🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Some countries, e.g. Italy, Greece, Russia and Scotland, consider Leap Year and Leap Day to be the unluckiest of times. 📍💍 In some countries, it's OK for a woman to propose to a man on February 29. 📍🐸 In some countries, the frog is a symbol associated with February 29. 📍🇺🇸 The twin cities of Anthony, Texas, and Anthony, New Mexico, are the self-proclaimed Leap Year Capital of the World. They hold a four-day leap year festival that includes a huge birthday party for all leap year babies. (ID required.) 📍🇫🇷 🗞 Since 1980, a special French newspaper has only been published on Leap Day. __La Bougie du Sapeur __is only available on February 29, and it usually outsells all other newspapers on that day. 📍🎂 Many companies don’t recognize Leap Day as a “valid day.” They make leapers choose Feb. 28 or March 1 as their birthday instead. 📍🫰💳 Most employees who are paid fixed monthly incomes will work for free on Feb. 29 because their wages are likely not calculated to include the extra day. Subscribe- t.me/askmenow

**What are some surprising facts about leap years? ** ℹ️ 2024 is a leap year with an extra day on February 29. **✍️ Here are some interesting facts about leap years and February 29 ⬇️. ** 📍🗓 In his Julian calendar, Julius Caesar introduced the first leap year around 46 B.C., but this calendar had only one rule: Any year evenly divisible by four would be a leap year. That created too many leap years, but the math wasn't tweaked until Pope Gregory XIII introduced his [Gregorian calendar](https://t.me/askmenow/3448) more than 1,500 years later. 📍 All the other months in the Julian calendar have 30 or 31 days, but February lost out to the ego of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus. Under his predecessor Julius Caesar, February had 30 days and the month named after him - July - had 31. August had only 29 days. When Caesar Augustus became Emperor he added two days to 'his' month to make August the same as July. So February lost out to August in the battle of the extra days. 📍 Without an extra day on February 29 nearly every four years, we would lose almost six hours every year. After only 100 years, our [calendar](https://t.me/askmenow/3453) would be off by approximately 24 days. 📍 People born on February 29 are called "__leaplings__" or "__leapers__". 📍 The odds of being born on [a leap day](https://t.me/askmenow/3449) are 1 in about 1500. 📍🔮 [Astrologers](https://t.me/askmenow/3439) believe people born on February 29 have unusual talents 📍🇮🇹🇬🇷🇷🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Some countries, e.g. Italy, Greece, Russia and Scotland, consider Leap Year and Leap Day to be the unluckiest of times. 📍💍 In some countries, it's OK for a woman to propose to a man on February 29. 📍🐸 In some countries, the frog is a symbol associated with February 29. 📍🇺🇸 The twin cities of Anthony, Texas, and Anthony, New Mexico, are the self-proclaimed Leap Year Capital of the World. They hold a four-day leap year festival that includes a huge birthday party for all leap year babies. (ID required.) 📍🇫🇷 🗞 Since 1980, a special French newspaper has only been published on Leap Day. __La Bougie du Sapeur __is only available on February 29, and it usually outsells all other newspapers on that day. 📍🎂 Many companies don’t recognize Leap Day as a “valid day.” They make leapers choose Feb. 28 or March 1 as their birthday instead. 📍🫰💳 Most employees who are paid fixed monthly incomes will work for free on Feb. 29 because their wages are likely not calculated to include the extra day. Subscribe- t.me/askmenow