Wednesday 29 February 2012

Leap Year day


It is Leap Year day today.  I thought leap years occurred every 4 years but looking it up on Wikipedia I find that it is more complicated than that.  Years that are divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they are also divisible by 400 – so 1600 and 2000 were leap years but not 1900!  So having thought that every Leap Year would also be an Olympic year is not right.

I was going to list famous leaplings (yes, that’s what they call people born on this day) but actually found them to be a pretty nondescript lot.


This is a link to an article in The Telegraph about ladies popping the question http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/9103884/Pop-the-question-now-ladies-before-he-humiliates-you-with-his-proposal.html


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