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What Is a Leap Year?

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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012

You probably know that 2012 is a leap year. And that means that this year we get an extra day on February 29th. Great--an extra day. Who really cares? Well, leaplings (people born on Leap Year Day of a previous year) care, because they finally get to celebrate their actual birthday. But for the rest of us, it's just a day like any other day. So why do we go to all the trouble to have a leap year?

Epipheo shows you how, based on astronomy, the Gregorian Calendar uses leap year to keep us in tune with the sun, the stars, the universe and our inner man... (yeah, j/k about that last bit...).

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  • Timothy xDeadOn

    And u just got a subscriber :)

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  • oboesforeva

    I'm a leapling!

    Yay

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  • catalina aburto

    SI LO ESTAS LEYENDO NO LO DEJES DE LEER

    1.-Cierra tu mano

    2.-Di el nombrede tu amor

    3.- Di el nombre de un dia de la semana

    4.- Di tu nombre

    5.-Abre tu mano

    6.-Pe ga esto en 15 comentario y el dia q elegiste te dira que le gustas y te va a decir que si quires ser su novia(o).SI RECHASAS ESTO TE VA A IR MAL EN TUS RELACIONES ESTOS 3 AÑOS SIGUENTES.Ojo esto si es verdad

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  • luckiest18

    I loooooove your videos!!

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  • Zachary Laborde

    On the last point you made about Earth's rotation slowing down, isn't that the point of leap seconds?

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  • xYellowFangx

    my friend is a leapling

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  • TheCuriouskittycat

    I'm still confused by this concept

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  • pcodymatt

    Wow didn't know that I was called a leapling but I did know that I was born on feb 29th but at my school no one gives a shit :/

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  • TheMyavision

    true

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  • linds5000

    Actually, that means they would be born March 1 :L

    

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  • TheMyavision

    Without a leap year my favorite singer wouldn't be born :(

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  • Rotation1234

    Can you please tell me how did u do that animation which programe did u used?.thanks

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