1Lost key return free service
Canada has a free service to return lost keys to their owners. So far over 1.5 million keys have been returned
2. There are isolated communities in Eastern Canada that speak Gaelic
3. It is theorized that impact craters in North Dakota, Canada, France, and Ukraine were all made from the same asteroid that broke apart before impacting Earth 214 million years ago. Today they are no longer in a straight line due to plate tectonics.
4. There's a part of Canada that has black bears, grizzly bears, AND polar bears.
5. A Canada couple engaged in a neighbor feud dumped massive piles of fresh cow manure along their property line. A judge found them guilty of using the poop as a tool of harassment and fined them $15,000.
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6Kitsault town
There is a ghost town in northern British Columbia (Kitsault town), Canada that was abandoned almost overnight in 1983. Everything is still there and the power is still on. The whole town was purchased by an American who wants to turn it into a resort for intellectuals.
7. One day in 1871, Canada was perfectly visible from Rochester, NY. The phenomenon was known as the Rochester Mirage
8. George Street in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada has the most bars and pubs per square foot of any street in North America.
9. Canada is in talks to bring back the Zeppelin to help traverse the difficult landscape
10. Canada has a $300 Gold Coin with a Narwhal on it
11Forget me not
Canada's Alzheimer Society's official flower is a forget-me-not.
12. California has a larger population than all of Canada.
13. No cow in Canada can be given artificial hormones to increase its milk production. So no dairy product in Canada contains those hormones.
14. The first Thanksgiving in North America was held in 1578 in what is now Canada which happened 43 years before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock.
15. At 11 a.m. each November 11th at the Canadian War Museum, the sun shines through the window of the Museum's Memorial Hall and illuminates the only artifact in that space: the headstone of Canada's Unknown Soldier.
16Mincome program
An experimental program called Mincome existed in Canada in the 1970's and gave everyone a minimum income just for being a citizen. It resulted in slightly fewer hours worked, but saw overall increases in health, happiness, and educational achievement.
17. Canada built a reservoir within the remnant of an ancient eroded meteor crater. Visible from space, it is known as "The Eye of Quebec".
18. Scientists have found 1.5-billion-year-old water in a mine 1.5 miles beneath Ontario, Canada
19. You cannot enter Canada from the USA with a DUI on your record.
20. Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Quebec, Canada, is the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.
21Vermont state
Before Vermont became a state they tried to become part of Quebec, but Quebec refused so Vermont joined the United States instead.
22. Canada abruptly canceled the development of its own fighter jet (Avro Arrow) in the 1950s in favor of Nuclear missiles (Bomarcs). All the engineers left for NASA thereafter.
23. In Canada, text messages to landlines are converted into voice messages, so friends or family members who don't have a mobile phone can listen on a landline. English and French supported.
24. Canada has a free service run by volunteers to drive you home if you're too drunk to drive yourself during the holiday season
25. There is a town in Canada called "Redditt". It had a Highway 666 running through it, but a church successfully petitioned to have it renumbered so that their address wasn't on the "highway to hell."
