# Groundhog Day Explained

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-explained/611527>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 2, 2012, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-explained/611527 "2012-02-02T09:03:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-explained/611527/1 "2012-02-02T09:03:00Z")

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[Groundhog Day Explained by CGP Grey](http://youtu.be/7-Nl4JFDLOU) 2m 19s 🙂

I’m pretty sure this guy’s video have been link too before. They are fun and informative. I found his **Politics in the Animal Kingdom** very interesting.

Also this one is very important, must watch. [2012](http://youtu.be/Pyv1A8StJSs) 😃

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-explained/611527/2 "2012-02-02T09:10:51Z")

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Yeah, but how come Bill Murray relived the same day over and over?

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**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-explained/611527/3 "2012-02-02T15:01:03Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> Yeah, but how come Bill Murray relived the same day over and over?

Clearly you didn’t watch the video to the end.

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**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-explained/611527/4 "2012-02-02T16:50:34Z")

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Why are those links so strange? youtu.be instead of [youtube.com](http://youtube.com) ?

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-explained/611527/5 "2012-02-02T20:07:50Z")

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> [@TruCelt](#):
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> Why are those links so strange? youtu.be instead of [youtube.com](http://youtube.com) ?

They’re micro-links, for things like Twitter so they don’t take up too much character space.

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**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-explained/611527/6 "2012-02-02T22:34:18Z")

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They’re micro-links, for things like Twitter so they don’t take up too much character space.