Key Points
Those born on this particular date some five million people worldwide, known as Leaplings or Leapers face the dilemma of choosing which day to celebrate their birthday on during non-leap years..
In Ireland, February 29 is known as Bachelor's Day, or Lady's Privilege, and has traditionally been viewed as a day when women may propose to men, based on the legend of Saint Bridget and Saint Patrick..
The idea of women proposing on the last day of February in a leap year was also taken up in Denmark and Finland..
In non-leap years, on the night before May 1, teenage boys in the Rhine region fell birch trees, decorate them with streamers and affix them to the front of the house of the girl they admire making a tall and public decoration of love..
It hosts an annual, multi-day leap year festival with origins in the friendship between so-called "29-ers" Mary Ann Brown and Birdie Lewis, who pitched the idea to the town council in 1988. ..
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