Happy Leap Year!

Welcome to February 29, 2008.  Here are some fun leap year/calendar facts that you can use to impress all your friends...

• Every year that is divisible by four is a leap year; of those years, if it can be divided by 100, it is NOT a leap year, unless the year is divisible by 400. Then it's a leap year.
• The Gregorian calendar has a 400 year cycle until it repeats the same weekdays for every year.
• The Gregorian calendar has 97 leap years during those 400 years.
• The longest time between two leap years is eight years.  The last time that occurred was between 1896 and 1904.  The next time will be between 2096 and 2104.
• Ja Rule was born on February 29, 1976.
• The calendar year and the solar year are just about a half minute off.  At that rate, it takes 3,300 years for the calendar year and the solar year to diverge by a day.