
But did you know?:
- Woodchucks, marmots, and ground squirrels are the same thing as a groundhog.
- The earliest American reference to Groundhog day was made in 1841.
- Groundhog day may have somehow grown out of Candlemas.
- Punxsatawney Phil is not the only weather predicting groundhog. We also have Balzac Billy of Balzac, Alberta, Canada; Staten Island Chuck of NYC; Malverne Mel and Malverne Melissa of Malverne, New York; and General Beauregard Lee, PhD of Atlanta, Georgia (that PhD is real. He's been given honorary doctorates by two universities).
- Groundhog predictions are 75-90% accurate.
- Punxsutawney Phil's underground home at Gobbler's Knob is only temporary. For most of the year he lives in the town library with his wife Phyllis.
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