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  RSS isn't dead, but it is harder to find RSS feeds than it used to be. Browsers no longer point them out, and websites rarely prominently link to them anymore. And yet, most sites  do  offer RSS feeds. Here are a few ways to find those feeds, quickly, when Googling just doesn't cut it. We'll also show you how to create your own RSS feeds for apps that don't offer them. How to Find the RSS Feed URL for Most Websites A shocking number of websites are built using WordPress—around 30 percent of the top 10 million destinations on the web. This means there's a good chance that any website you visit is a WordPress site, and all of those sites offer RSS feeds that are easy to find. To find a WordPress RSS feed, simply add  /feed  to the end of the URL; e.g.,  https://justinpot.com/feed . I do this any time I visit a website that I'd like an RSS feed for—it almost always works. If it doesn't work, here are a few tricks for finding RSS feeds on other sites. If a si...

  Why do we need leap years? The  Gregorian  calendar, which now serves as the standard calendar for civil use throughout the world, has both common years and leap years. A  common year  has 365 days and a leap year 366 days, with the extra--or  intercalary --day designated as February 29. A l designated as February 29. A leap year occurs every four years to help synchronize the calendar year with the solar year, or the length of time it takes to complete the Earth's orbit around the sun, which is about 365 days and a quarter of a day. The length of the solar year, however, is slightly less than 365 days-by about 11 minutes. To compensate for this discrepancy, the leap year is omitted three times every four hundred years. In other words, a century year cannot be a leap year unless it is divisible by 400. Thus 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years. What are your chances of being born on leap day? About 1 in 1,500. ...