Leap Years: Why they exist and the future without them

Although 2020 will go down as possibly the worst year in history, some conspiracy theorists will contend with this title. This is because a small number of historians have bizarrely proposed the Middle Ages never happened and our calendars are greatly out of sync with the actual timeline. According to the German historian Herbert Illig, the year is 1724 and much of what you thought you knew about history and how time works is flat-out wrong.