What's in a leap year? Eternal youth, wedding bells and tech bugs

By AGENCY

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An extra day every four years, what's not to love?

The calendar quirk of Feb 29 keeps us in sync with the seasons but it has also spawned a host of rituals and superstitions, not to mention computer glitches, which AFP unpacks here:

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