Don't Jump... LEAP! Traditional Cache
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LEAP out of the house & find this cache! Park at the posted coords & use the designated walk/bike path. Cache contains log only, BYOP. First to Find wins an FTF pin. Good Luck!
Parking Coordinates: N41 51.837 W090 10.024 At this location you are within steps of the Iowa/Illinois State line
Why do we need leap year?
The Gregorian calendar, which now serves as the standard calendar for civil use throughout the world, has both common years and leap years. A common year has 365 days and a leap year 366 days, with the extra, or intercalary, day designated as February 29. A leap year occurs every four years to help synchronize the calendar year with the solar year, or the length of time it takes the earth to complete its orbit about the sun, which is about 365¼ days. The length of the solar year, however, is slightly less than 365¼ days—by about 11 minutes. To compensate for this discrepancy, the leap year is omitted three times every four hundred years. In other words, a century year cannot be a leap year unless it is divisible by 400. Thus 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years.
What are your chances of being born on leap day?
About 1 in 1,500.
When is the birthday party?
If you are born on a Leap Year, do you get your driver's license on February 28th or March 1st? It is an ambiguous question that is decided by each state. Most states, however, consider March 1st the official day. For instance, the Michigan Vehicle Code states that people born on February 29th "are deemed to have been born on March 1st."
Read more: Leap Year Explained — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com
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