50 Things That Prove Canada Is a Unique Country

[Music] what country holds annual bathtub races and has a prepared landing pod for UFOs also it has a place where there are so many snakes that they look like spaghetti on your plate still no idea hey okay I'll give you a huge hint this country produces more than 70% of all maple syrup in the world yep you nailed it this awesome country is Canada and here are 50 cool facts about this place Canadians are famous for saying sorry all the time even when the other person is clearly in the wrong in fact they apologize so much that an apology Act was passed in 2009 it allows saying sorry in court without being afraid that it'll sound like admitting your guilt approximately 90 percent of Canada's land area is uninhabited even though it's bigger than the US it has only 11% of America's population at 4860 miles the trans-canada highway is almost the longest national highway in the world beat only by australia's highway 1 also when you travel along the trans-canada highway and reach Quebec province pay attention and you may see the most cheerful town in the world st. Louis do ha ha yep just like that with 2 Haws and 2 exclamation marks the town even has a Guinness World Record for most exclamation marks in a town name it's illegal for polar bears in Canada to break into houses and steal food so if you see one rummaging around in your fridge call the cops you can laugh all you want but there's even a polar bear jail in Churchill Manitoba bear troublemakers stay there until they get relocated Canada received its own flag in 1965 almost 100 years after it became a separate country in 1867 people in Nanaimo British Columbia are fans of a very exciting kind of sport since 1967 they've been organizing and participating in bathtub racing these unusual competitions take place every year and involve bathtub boats and a lot of fun several of the most popular superheroes such as Wolverine and Superman were created by Canadians thank you so much guys the most dramatic weather change happened in Canada On January 10th 1962 the temperature in pincher Creek one of the windiest places in the country jumped from minus two point two degrees to seventy one point six degrees Fahrenheit within a couple of hours Canadians love hockey as they say these people breathe eat and live hockey but despite their passion for the game Canada's national sport is lacrosse one area in the Hudson Bay region has less gravity than any other region on the planet so if you want to jump higher and weigh less that's the place to be one creature on Mars was named gander after a town in the Newfoundland and Labrador province of Canada to honor its space research efforts how about this one Santa Claus is Canadian that's what Canada's immigration Minister announced in 2012 so maybe that's why his famous outfit is made up of mostly two colors red and white which are the national colours of Canada now even though the Stanley Cup which is the National Hockey League trophy has its own bodyguard hockey champions still managed to put all kinds of things in it I mean they drink chocolate milk from the poor thing in 1930 Canada's hockey team did so well that they were put straight through to the final game they didn't even have to take part in knockout rounds and in the end they won the gold Canada's territory occupies a whopping three thousand eight hundred fifty-five million square miles which makes it the second largest country in the world after Russia for comparison Canada is bigger than the whole European Union and 15 times larger than France the biggest European country Ottawa the capital of Canada isn't the largest city in the country with a population of about 1 million people it comes second to Toronto the capital of the Ontario province almost 3 million people live in that city Canada is officially the most educated country in the world with 56% of its population having some kind of post high school education degree in st. Paul Alberta they built the first landing pad for UFOs well I guess you can never be too prepared the platform weighs more than 130 tons and contains a time capsule which has to be opened in 2060 7 in a 2018 happiness report Canada was ranked number 7 I mean even despite all that cold the number of Canadian lakes is mind-blowing the country has more than 3 million lakes which is more than the rest of the world combined besides all these lays contain 20% of all the fresh water on earth Okanagan Lake is supposedly the home of Ogopogo a mythical creature similar to the one that's said to dwell in Loch Ness Gauntlet forests cover more than 40% of Canada's land territory but New Brunswick province is especially for estate trees cover 85% of its territory walking in the forest without a compass doesn't sound like fun anymore Canada has the world's longest coastline if you decided to walk along the Canadian coast without stops it would take you more than four and a half years no wonder since you'll have to cover about 150 1,000 miles in Quebec they produce 77% of all the maple syrup in the world and Canadians do love this sweet pancake topping on the other hand who doesn't by the way rumor has it that somewhere in Canada there's a strategic maple syrup reserve about ten percent of Canadians are either vegetarians or vegans that means 2.3 million vegetarians and 850,000 vegans most of these people are under 35 the national animal of Canada is the beaver by the way it's Canada's largest and the world's second largest rodent the capital city of Canada Ottawa is at the top of the list of the world's coldest capitals Canada is home to the biggest number of polar bears in the world see for yourself out of approximately 25 thousand left on the planet fifteen thousand live in the Arctic regions of the country Canada straddles not one or two but six time zones they are Newfoundland time zone Atlantic Time Zone Eastern Time central time zone mountain time zone and the Pacific time zone hey timeout the lowest ever recorded temperature in Canada was minus eighty one point four degrees Fahrenheit whoo tap water in Canada is as good as bottled water what's more some people are sure that it even tastes better while driving at Northwest Canada be prepared to see license plates shaped like a polar bear by the way there are so many bears in Canada that in some areas drivers leave their cars unlocked why you ask it's done to make sure that people have a chance to escape from the bears by hiding inside a car the largest mall in the u.s. is the Mall of America but did you know that its owners are Canadian wait what if you're a fan of narwhals go to Canada there you can buy a coin with this unicorn whale on the other hand be ready to part with 300 bucks since the coin is made of gold or if you want to play big you can buy a Canadian 1 million dollar coin no kidding this largest coin on the market is made up of 220 pounds of 99% pure gold but hurry up there are only five such coins in the world and only one is for sale ever heard the word Loony yeah well in Canada this is in fact a form of currency loonie and Tunie as well the loonie is a $1.00 gold coloured coin and the Tuni is as you might guess a $2.00 one Canadians love their famous interjection a what's more it's listed in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary as a real valid word the first British Columbians used fish instead of candles kulagin also known as candle fish is so fatty that when you dry it and string on a wick it'll burn brightly in Canadian McDonald's you can buy the McLobster sold exclusively in this region now if your biggest fear is snakes never ever visit the narcissi snake dens in Manitoba there are more snakes in that place than in any other part of the world thousands of red-sided garter snakes are concentrated in that relatively small area in Saskatchewan you don't wear a hoodie you put on a bunny hug true every spring the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador witnesses a stunning iceberg parade when massive chunks of ice break off glaciers and make their way through iceberg Valley entrepreneurs harvest these mini icebergs to use them in the production of alcoholic drinks and skincare products Wood Buffalo National Park created in 1922 to protect the largest herd of roaming wood bison in the world is larger than Switzerland one of the most popular dishes in Canada is poutine crispy fries covered with cheese curds and rich gravy Hey what's not to like Canadians eat more macaroni and cheese than any other nation in the world you didn't see that coming did you by the way the Canadians have been crazy about this dish ever since 1845 Canadians are some of the friendliest people in the world you probably can't find a rude Canadian even if you try really hard lots of Canadians speak French as their first language and Montreal is the second largest french-speaking city in the world after Paris of course pretty cool eh say have you heard any other curious facts about 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Length: 12min 30sec (750 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 06 2019