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WHAT IF THERE WAS NO LEAP DAY? IT'D BE JULY 2017!

By Don Schwenneker

Updated 2 hrs 29 mins ago

How many times have you said. "I wish I had some extra time"? Today, you get it. An extra day!

It's Leap Day, a tradition that stretches back all the way to 46 B.C.E. Back then Julius Caesar would make trips to Egypt to visit Cleopatra. And the Egyptians had figured out something about the calendar. The year was actually 365.25 days. To compensate, they added a day every four years.

So Caesar went back and changed his calendar. He added the day to February because it was actually at the end of his calendar year. And it stayed that way for about 1,600 years.

The problem is a year on Earth is actually 365.2422 days. Now, .0088 days may not seem like much, but those 11 minutes and 14 seconds add up over the years. All the church holidays seemed to be falling further and further behind. Enter Pope Gregory XIII.

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"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

"But the Solar System!" I protested.

"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

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