It
was only about ten years ago that I learned that hedgehogs and
porcupines were different animals. After all, they are not native to
America. Now thanks to YouTube, hedgehogs are a lot more familiar, but
there’s still much to learn. In Europe long ago, they were the spring
weather forecasters, but when Germans immigrated to America, there were
no hedgehogs to be found. So the American groundhog was enlisted to
announce when spring arrived instead. Neccessity is the mother of
invention, you know, even when it's a tradition that evolves into
something as silly as an animal seeing its shadow. That’s the kind of
fun fact you’ll learn in
this list from mental_floss.
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