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Punxsutawney Phil has been prognosticating about when spring will come since the 1880s. Here are five Punxsutawney Phil tidbits you may not have heard ahead of Groundhog Day 2011.
Punxsutawney Phil's fame would not have been possible without the German immigrants who came to Punxsutawney, Pa., in the 1800s. They brought the tradition of Candlemas with them, which said that if a hedgehog or a badger saw its shadow, there would be six more weeks of winter. When German immigrants came to Punxsutawney, they found groundhogs to be an attractive substitute for traditional animal forecasters.
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