We’ve gathered another dose of interesting and novel “today I learned” facts to impress at dinner parties and dominate at trivia games.

Groundhog Day is always on Feb. 2, which in 2026 lands on a Monday. Punxsutawney Phil - as well as other prophetic groundhogs around the nation - will predict the forecast early in the morning.

Fun fact: US president George Washington would never have known the above. He died in 1799, decades before paleontologist Richard Owen first coined the term "dinosaur" in 1842. Related: If You Lived ...

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The history of Groundhog Day isn’t just quirky folklore—it’s a centuries-old saga that turned Punxsutawney Phil into an unexpected star ...

"During World War II, the British dressed a dead body in a Royal Marines uniform and planted letters saying the Allies were going to invade Greece, and that Sicily was just a decoy. It was called ...