Canada is a big, beautiful and diverse country, which I’m enjoying for 10 days. These 13 facts about Canada are however SUPER WEIRD and interesting!
1: Canada has more lakes than the rest of the World’s lakes combined
2: Canada is the World’s Most Educated Country: over half its residents have college degrees
3: Canada consumes more macaroni and cheese than any other nation in the World
4: Canada is the second largest country in the World (land area), right after Russia
5: Canada has the largest coastline in the World
6: Residents of Churchill, Canada, leave their cars unlocked to offer an escape for pedestrians who might encounter Polar Bears
7: “Canada” is an Iroquoian language word meaning “Village”
8: Canada has the third largest oil reserves of any country in the World after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela
9: The North American Beaver is the national animal of Canada
10: Canada and Denmark have been fighting over an uninhabited island (Hans Islands) by leaving each other bottles of alcohol and changing their flags since the 1930s
11: Dildo is a town on the island of Newfoundland, Canada
12: Niagara Falls has the World’s highest flow rate , about 28 million liters, or about 700,000 gallons, of water travel down Niagara Falls every second
13: No building in Montreal can be taller than the Mount Royal Cross.
Some really weird facts indeed, but Canada is a super cool country!
Gustav
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