The king, the pope and the origin of April Fools' Day

By Alexandre Cherman , João Goulart Foundation Institute

The Flat Earth remains motionless in the center of the Universe, while the Sun, Moon and planets revolve madly around it, sometimes above, sometimes below, waddling around the edge so as not to be noticed by the reptilian illuminati.

LIE! All lie. A clear tribute to “April 1st”, April Fools’ Day. The Earth is not flat, it is not stationary and of all the stars mentioned, the Moon is the only one that really revolves around us. The Earth is a planet, and as a good planet it is, it revolves around the Sun.

Rotating and rotating around the Sun, regardless of the name we give to this movement, the Earth takes 365 days, 5 hours and 48 minutes to complete a cycle. We call this cycle a “year”. The fact that we don't have an exact number of days in a year, incommensurability, is always a challenge for calendars. In our calendar, the Gregorian, this challenge is overcome with the creation of the leap year, whose rule is not simply “an extra day every four years”.

(The leap year rule says that all years that are multiples of 4 will be leap years, unless they are also multiples of 100, with the exception of years that are multiples of 400. Complicated? Not so much... We just need to pay attention to the so-called “years secular”, those ending in 00. If these years are multiples of 400, they will be leap years, like any other year that is a multiple of 4. If they are not, they will be an exception to the rule and will not be leap years, despite being multiples of 4. This happened with the year 2000, which was a leap year, and perhaps that's why our generation doesn't understand the nuances of the leap year rule. The year 2100 will not be a leap year. Neither will 2200 and 2300. The next secular year to have a day 29 of February will be 2400.

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