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“After the first issue sold out in two days, the newsagents were clamoring for more copies – so we said fine, but only in four years’ time!” Leap year: French readers enjoy world’s only four-year newspaper. (Given the news these days, it might be better for my health if I adopted the same publishing schedule.)

+ “Every four years we have a 29 February – apart from those that fall at the turn of a century, unless the year is divisible by 400. This is the messy story of how leap years work.”

+ Why leap years exist, explained in one simple animation.