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TIL its Bachelor's Day in Ireland. It is an Irish tradition that takes place on Leap Day. Women can initiate dancing and propose a marriage. If the proposal was rejected, the man was expected to buy the woman a silk dress or, by the mid-20th century, a fur coat.

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