Two-year-old left home alone
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Today is Leap Day

It is reputedly common knowledge that on February 29, spinsters can propose to the object of their matrimonial desires, and must be accepted. For all the men out there who are in hiding, you can come out now. It’s a furfy. The dangerous day is November 9, especially if you live in Dogpatch, but more on that later.
Leap years come about because the original astronomers didn’t get the calculations quite right. It does not take 365 days to go around the sun for one complete revolution, it actually takes 365 days and around six hours. So somewhere along the line, we have to put all the six hours into the equation. This we do by adding the six hours together so that every four years we have another 24 hour day to slip into the calendar.

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