According to statistics, 10,562 Romanians are born on February 29, a day that appears in calendars once every 4 years. About 5 million people in the world were born on February 29, and the probability of being born on February 29 is 1 in 1,461.
Why do we have leap years?
The most common explanation is that we have these years to keep the calendar in line with the seasons. Although we learned in school that it takes the Earth 365 days to revolve around the Sun, the rotation actually takes about 365.25 days. Adding an extra day every four years will keep the balance.
Without leap years, 100 years from now, “summer will be in November or December,” explains Robert S. Washington III, a graduate student at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
Source: Hot News
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