Interesting Shares

1061 readers

1 users here now

Share interesting articles, projects, research, pictures, or videos.

Please include a prefix in your title!

Prefixes for posts

Certain clients offer filters to make prefixes searchable. Photon (m.lemmy.zip) used for hyperlinks below:

Icon attribution

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

BrikoX

Quite the leap: Iowa man born on 29 February has a son on same day (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by BrikoX to c/interestingshare

5 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Dillon and his newborn son Archer Glass each had a one in 1,461 chance of being born on a leap day

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Except it's not actually 1/1461 though. It's not like you have sex and then a random number generator is used to determine how long the pregnancy will be. It's probably more like 1/60 chance (allowing for early or late birth, as a rough guess). Of course, if you have a cork of just the right size you can eliminate the chance of a premature baby...