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Hanukkah starts on Christmas Day this year. How often does that occur? Explaining the rare Chrismukkah convergence and other calendar oddities.

People have been left 'mind-blown' after discovering there's a little-known rule that means leap years aren't always every 4 years - as sometimes we skip one.

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VERIFY No, leap year doesn't always happen every 4 years: VERIFY If the year can't be evenly divided by 400 at the turn of a century, then it won't be a leap year.

Every four years, we add a day to the calendar on February 29, but do people know why? Meteorologist Dalencia Jenkins explains what's the reason for the extra day.

Today is Leap Day, February 29th. But why is Leap Day a thing? We break down the science behind the extra day, why it's necessary and when the next one is.

Without a leap year, or having a leap day every year, we'd have December summers and winter in July, disrupting our way of life, including how we get our fruits and vegetables.

What would happen without a leap year? Eventually, nothing good in terms of when major events fall, when farmers plant and how seasons align with the sun and the moon.

“Leap year is the Gregorian calendar’s way of keeping track of the earth’s annual orbit around the sun. A calendar year is 365 days, while the actual earth orbiting time is closer to 365¼ days.

“Without the leap years, after a few hundred years we will have summer in November,” said Younas Khan, a physics instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.