Leap Year: Leap Year People get all the perks

I'm blushing to admit that I never took the time to understand the reasons for Leap Year. What with an extra 24 hours on my hands this week, I used a few of them to do the research. The earth takes 365 days, five hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds toIt's the first time in four years Ja Rule can celebrate his real birthday -- February 29th -- but despite being stuck behind bars, Ja won't go hungry …Two professors, an astrophysicist and an economist, propose junking the leap day

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