While the extra day in February is just another day for some people, leap day holds a lot of meaning to others. 

The myth that surrounds the leap year phenomena is that children born on leap days have unique personalities, talents, or even special powers. One family in Lima now has two special children born on two consecutive leap years.

2020 is a leap year, but how did the process of adding an extra day to February start? We asked ONU assistant professor of creative writing, Jennifer Pullen, that very question - she says that the need to adapt the calendar started back when a lunar calendar was still being used, and would be about three months off every few hundred years or so.