Oh Canada ...

Today is Canada Day, our country’s 151st birthday … 

We’re not a people known for standing up and thumping our chests, but make no mistake, we are very proud of our country. There's lots to love about it, from it’s wonderful natural beauty to the diversity and capabilities of our people.  

We also known for our sense of humour and we are not afraid to poke fun at ourselves ...... so ‘JFF’ … (just for fun :>)) … I thought I'd share some slightly off the wall facts about Canada ... 

Canada only got its own flag 100 years after it became a country - on February 15, 1965.

The famous Canadian interjection "eh" is actually listed in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary as a valid word.

You can write a letter in any language and send it to the North Pole, H0H 0H0 (Santa's postal code - all addresses have one), Canada and you will receive a letter back from Santa.

The townspeople of Nanaimo, BC, race bathtubs as part of an annual aquatic tradition. Nanaimo is also the birthplace of the famous Nanaimo Bar ... a to die for sweet treat!

Some of the world's most popular superheroes were conceived by Canadian minds, including Superman and Wolverine

Canada has an island called "Dildo"

Canada is home to the Narcisse Snake Pits of Manitoba, the largest orgy of garter snakes in the world ... no pic here ... snakes freak me out!

The second largest country in the world after Russia, Canada is bigger than the entire European Union, more than 30 per cent larger than Australia, five times as big as Mexico, three times as big as India and about the same size as 81,975 Walt Disney Worlds put together

If you visit Dawson City, Yukon, you can join the “Sourtoe Cocktail Club” — all you have to do is finish a drink (of

anything!) with a real human toe in the bottom. The club’s motto says, “You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow—but the lips have gotta touch the toe.”

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.  At last count, there may be as many as two million, with 563 lakes larger than 100 square kilometres

The third official language of Canada is "goose" - just kidding :>). However, Canadian geese do have as many as 13 different animal calls that are distinctly their own

Only in Canada could it go from -19 degrees C (-2 F) to 22  degree C (72 F) in an hour! (Pincher Creek, Alberta in 1962)

As much as Canadians love hockey, it's actually not the national sport - lacrosse is

The world's first UFO landing pad was built in Alberta in 1967

Montreal is the world’s second largest French speaking city after Paris

Hawaiian pizza was invented by an Ontario man

There are nearly 250 car accidents a year involving a moose

Ogopogo is a mythical monster similar to the Loch Ness Monster that supposedly lives in Lake Okanagan, BC

We call our $1 and $2 coins loonies and toonies

At the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, you can run on the sea bed in a "Not Since Moses" run, but you have to make it across before the 100 billion tons of water rush back!

There's an area in the Hudson Bay region has less gravity than the rest of the planet.

The official phone number for Canada is 1-800-O-Canada

... Wishing all my fellow Canadians out there in Blogland ...  

Happy Canada Day!

Thanks for dropping by ... nj