come on boys it’s leap day that’s leap
day it comes once every four years and
it confuses people every time welcome to
watchmojo.com it we’re looking at the
most interesting facts that you probably
didn’t know about leap years those years
with one extra day in the calendar a
year is actually 365.25 days every four
years we gained one day if we didn’t
adjust the calendar and say 40 years
February would almost be January number
five leap year was introduced in 45 BC
by Julius Caesar
while we as humans have been practicing
some form of leap year like calendar
correction for much longer
it wasn’t until 45 BC that the leap year
we know of today became a tradition
before Caesar Romans and others used a
three hundred and fifty five day
calendar rather than the 365 days we now
observe and added an extra 22 day month
every two years when the Julian calendar
was introduced in 45 BC it began the 365
day year with an extra day added every
fourth year at the end of February I
practiced we still uphold today levy a
money gap number four you have a higher
chance of being born with an extra toe
than you do have being born on February
29th I have an extra toe not with me of
course so the chances of being born on
February 29th are one in 1461 so if my
math is any good there are roughly one
hundred and eighty-seven thousand people
in America and around four and a half
million people around the world who were
born on a leap day I’m Teddy I was born
February 29th and there have been 10 of
those in my lifetime therefore I’m tan
now polydactyl ism is the condition
where an individual is born with an
extra finger or toe the chances of being
born this way are around one in 500
meaning that you have a much better
chance of being born with an extra
finger than you do of being born on a
leap day Oh
yeah I can grab my cheeseball if anyone
could work out the odds of being born
with an extra digit on February 29th
you’re better at math than I am all
right I’ll do the math but I’m not gonna
meet with any therapist number three
there are many folklore traditions
regarding marriage and leap days and
we’re not even referring to leap day
William did you not grow up with leap
day William she lives in the Mariana
Trench he emerges every four years to
trade children’s tears for candy while a
leap year may mean just another day for
North Americans leap days carry much
more power around the world increase
getting married during a leap year is
said to be bad luck and one in five
couples will deliberately avoid planning
their wedding for a leap year in Finland
Scotland and Ireland it is tradition for
a woman to propose on a leap day and if
the man refuses he has to give something
in return in Denmark for instance it was
customary to give 12 pairs of gloves
critics have argued both for and against
the tradition with some arguing that it
is outdated and maintains oppressive
restrictive gender roles while others
see it as empowering for women
[Music]
number two in court
leap day does not count as an extra day
but leap here is just that isn’t it it’s
an extra day nevertheless if you are
sentenced to one year in prison during a
leap year you’re going to the slammer
for 366 days that’s not fair
in 2001 an American woman tried to
receive her dead ex-husband Social
Security benefits which she could have
had if they’d been married for at least
10 years
however they divorced three days shy of
their tenth anniversary but she argued
that the Leef days accumulated and
pushed their relationship over ten years
the court disagreed not only is its
legal status kind of confusing but
governments of the world don’t even
agree on what to do about leaf day
birthdays in New Zealand and Taiwan for
example they are celebrated on February
28th but in the UK leap Day birthdays
legally fall on March 1st England
prevails number one those on a fixed
annual wage work for free on leap day Oh
those of you collecting an hourly wage
have nothing to worry about but those of
you on salary be prepared to work for
nothing because salaries paid by the
year 365 days are covered employers
generally pay the same amount each year
regardless of whether or not there’s an
extra day added so employees around the
world are kind of working for free every
February 29th then and then I’m quitting
I’m going to quit of course the other
side of the argument is that no you’re
not working for free because you are
paid an annual income and a year is
actually 365 and a quarter days but
nevertheless the debate rages on if you
ask me though I think we should just lay
the argument to rest and make leap day
an official holiday merry leap day
tourists merry leap day positive gay
guys meeting in the city so what do you
think should we just go ahead and make
leap day a holiday I love or should we
cut the year down to 355 days and have
an extra month now and then for more non
skippable top 10s and unpaid labor top
fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
you are mislead a pair of homeland and
the ocean
[Music]
day it comes once every four years and
it confuses people every time welcome to
watchmojo.com it we’re looking at the
most interesting facts that you probably
didn’t know about leap years those years
with one extra day in the calendar a
year is actually 365.25 days every four
years we gained one day if we didn’t
adjust the calendar and say 40 years
February would almost be January number
five leap year was introduced in 45 BC
by Julius Caesar
while we as humans have been practicing
some form of leap year like calendar
correction for much longer
it wasn’t until 45 BC that the leap year
we know of today became a tradition
before Caesar Romans and others used a
three hundred and fifty five day
calendar rather than the 365 days we now
observe and added an extra 22 day month
every two years when the Julian calendar
was introduced in 45 BC it began the 365
day year with an extra day added every
fourth year at the end of February I
practiced we still uphold today levy a
money gap number four you have a higher
chance of being born with an extra toe
than you do have being born on February
29th I have an extra toe not with me of
course so the chances of being born on
February 29th are one in 1461 so if my
math is any good there are roughly one
hundred and eighty-seven thousand people
in America and around four and a half
million people around the world who were
born on a leap day I’m Teddy I was born
February 29th and there have been 10 of
those in my lifetime therefore I’m tan
now polydactyl ism is the condition
where an individual is born with an
extra finger or toe the chances of being
born this way are around one in 500
meaning that you have a much better
chance of being born with an extra
finger than you do of being born on a
leap day Oh
yeah I can grab my cheeseball if anyone
could work out the odds of being born
with an extra digit on February 29th
you’re better at math than I am all
right I’ll do the math but I’m not gonna
meet with any therapist number three
there are many folklore traditions
regarding marriage and leap days and
we’re not even referring to leap day
William did you not grow up with leap
day William she lives in the Mariana
Trench he emerges every four years to
trade children’s tears for candy while a
leap year may mean just another day for
North Americans leap days carry much
more power around the world increase
getting married during a leap year is
said to be bad luck and one in five
couples will deliberately avoid planning
their wedding for a leap year in Finland
Scotland and Ireland it is tradition for
a woman to propose on a leap day and if
the man refuses he has to give something
in return in Denmark for instance it was
customary to give 12 pairs of gloves
critics have argued both for and against
the tradition with some arguing that it
is outdated and maintains oppressive
restrictive gender roles while others
see it as empowering for women
[Music]
number two in court
leap day does not count as an extra day
but leap here is just that isn’t it it’s
an extra day nevertheless if you are
sentenced to one year in prison during a
leap year you’re going to the slammer
for 366 days that’s not fair
in 2001 an American woman tried to
receive her dead ex-husband Social
Security benefits which she could have
had if they’d been married for at least
10 years
however they divorced three days shy of
their tenth anniversary but she argued
that the Leef days accumulated and
pushed their relationship over ten years
the court disagreed not only is its
legal status kind of confusing but
governments of the world don’t even
agree on what to do about leaf day
birthdays in New Zealand and Taiwan for
example they are celebrated on February
28th but in the UK leap Day birthdays
legally fall on March 1st England
prevails number one those on a fixed
annual wage work for free on leap day Oh
those of you collecting an hourly wage
have nothing to worry about but those of
you on salary be prepared to work for
nothing because salaries paid by the
year 365 days are covered employers
generally pay the same amount each year
regardless of whether or not there’s an
extra day added so employees around the
world are kind of working for free every
February 29th then and then I’m quitting
I’m going to quit of course the other
side of the argument is that no you’re
not working for free because you are
paid an annual income and a year is
actually 365 and a quarter days but
nevertheless the debate rages on if you
ask me though I think we should just lay
the argument to rest and make leap day
an official holiday merry leap day
tourists merry leap day positive gay
guys meeting in the city so what do you
think should we just go ahead and make
leap day a holiday I love or should we
cut the year down to 355 days and have
an extra month now and then for more non
skippable top 10s and unpaid labor top
fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
you are mislead a pair of homeland and
the ocean
[Music]
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