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What is a leap years and why do we have them?
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2024
Now leap years divisible by 100, like the year 1900, are skipped unless they're also divisible by 400, like the year 2000, in which case they're observed.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 26, 2024
Growing up, she had normal birthday parties each year, but an extra special one when leap years rolled around.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
Long before Europeans colonized North America, the Indigenous peoples in the valley where Mexico City would later arise may have followed a natural solar calendar that was so accurate it accounted for leap years.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
I have lived for eleven and a half years, which is 4,199 days if you include two leap years, and that is 100,776 hours, which is over six million minutes, but only on planet Earth.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
