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Hey everyone, I'm Stacey Vanik Smith, inframereal Segara. And joining me is Life Kit reporter Andy Taggle.

Hey Andy.

Hey, Stacey.

And for this episode, we are taking a leap into a very

special day. We are indeed Stacy it is a leap year it is a leap day. who can you start us off and tell us like why do why do we have this this day of leaping I would love to leap into this with you I just learned all this and I think it's really cool. So a calendar year is typically

365 days long. The thing is 365 is actually a rounded number.

It's not exactly how much time it takes to revolve around the sun.

The Earth takes 365 days, five hours,

48 minutes and 56 seconds to revolve around the sun.

That's why every so often, it's not exactly, actually, precisely every four years,

but we won't get into that right now.

We get an extra day, a whole extra day day to account for that extra time and

keep our calendars accurate. We have to leap. We have to leap and what is so

great about that is all this extra time. Every single day I wish that there were

more hours in the day now we get a whole 24 that is so so cool but also so much

pressure right? Yes I'm feeling pressure the second after I said it was

cool I began to feel a crushing pressure what do we do with our leap day but you

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