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What is a leap year?

What is so important about February 29th? Well, if you haven't noticed, for the past 4 years, there has not been a single February 29th! And why is that? So, you may know that there are 365 days in a year, right? Well, not exactly. NASA scientists have estimated a full year to be exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. So, as the years go by, those hours and minutes stack up. In order to keep in order with the Gregorian calendar, (The calendar we use today,) we add up those extra hours. When we add them up, it is almost the time of a full day! So, in order to keep the year 365 days, we need that extra day to help us out a bit. So then, what happens to people born ON February 29? Some might think they celebrate their birthday once every 4 years, and age 4x as slow as us. But no, they still have their birthdays on March 1. So then what might happen if a person was born on March 1? Well, I guess on that leap year, they will have to hold off one extra day!

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