BONUS: Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ – Groundhog Day Edition – (2/2/23)

In honor of Groundhog Day, here is a BONUS Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’  – Groundhog Day Edition – on this Thursday – February 2nd, 2023. Let’s learn something together:

1. Don’t put too much stock in Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction.  He’s been making them since 1886, and he’s only been right 39% of the time.  So you’d be better off flipping a coin.  That said, the Groundhog Club claims he’s never wrong.  They say it’s their fault for misinterpreting his language, “Groundhogese.”
2. He usually predicts six more weeks of winter.  Coming into today, he’d seen his shadow 106 times, plus one “partial shadow” in 1942.  He’s only said “no shadow” 19 times that we know of.  There are 10 years where there’s no record.
3. They used to EAT Phil after he made his prediction.  They served him up after the first official Groundhog Day in 1887 and said he was quite “tender.”
4. Despite that fact, officials at the Groundhog Club claim he’s immortal.  He supposedly drinks something called the “Elixir of Life” every summer, and they’ve been using the same groundhog all these years.
5. During Prohibition, Phil threatened to take drastic action.  He said if they didn’t let him have a drink, he’d impose SIXTY more weeks of winter.

Be sure to share these 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ with your family, friends & coworkers at some point today!

(USA Today / PennLive / History.com / Weather.com / Groundhog.org / The Conversation)