Ethers.js – Troubleshooting Why Ethers.js Listening to Events Doesn’t Work

What I'm trying to do:

I'm trying to listen to any event happening on a contract. Since I'm doing this for the first time, I chose a popular liquidity pool, the "Cake" liquidity pool on Binance Smart Chain. Here's the code (I'm using version 5.7.0 of ethers js):

const ethers = require("ethers");
var rpc_url = "https://bsc-dataseed.binance.org/";
let provider = new ethers.providers.JsonRpcProvider(rpc_url);

var contractAddress = "0x0ed7e52944161450477ee417de9cd3a859b14fd0";

// abi copied from https://bscscan.com/address/0x0ed7e52944161450477ee417de9cd3a859b14fd0#code
var CONTRACT_ABI = 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let contract = new ethers.Contract(contractAddress, CONTRACT_ABI, provider);

contract.on('*', event => {
  console.log(' ... something happened ...');
});

Result:

Nothing ends up happening. The code doesn't fail, it runs, but for some reason the code isn't listening to any event happening, even though I do in fact see events happening on that liquidity pool on dextools.

Question:

Does anyone know why this is happening? I believe I did everything properly to listen to an event on the Cake liquidity pool contract, however nothing seems to be happening.