With a population of 129, Grise Fiord is the largest community on Ellesmere Island -- and one of the coldest inhabited places in the world. The average yearly temperature is about -16.5°C, and it is known as the "place that never thaws."..........
A boatload of settlers established a plantation in what was then known as Cuper's Cove in 1610. Known as Cupids today, it was the second English colony in North America after Jamestown, Virginia, founded in 1607 and the first in Canada......
As early as 1625, the English established a year-round trading post on the Pemaquid Peninsula on the coast of Maine, which was granted as the Pemaquid Patent by the Plymouth Council. A fort that had been built there was plundered by the pirate Dixie Bull in 1632.
The name of Canada originates from a Saint-Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata (or canada) for "settlement", "village", or "land"...............
Cheddar is the most popular cheese in Canada.. On average Canadians consume 23.4 pounds per person annually...
Mons Huygens is the tallest mountain on the Moon.. It is 4700 metres tall, just over half the height of Mt Everest (8848m) ...........
Earthworms that are common to North America are not native to the continent, as any earthworms that it may have had were wiped out during the Ice Age. Of course, this would be true about pretty much everything, so shut up about invasive species.
Humpback whales manipulate and catch their prey with a sophisticated use of bubbles called bubble netting....
There are five different species of maple leaves in Canada, the Bigleaf Maple, the Manitoba Maple, the Mountain Maple, the Silver Maple and the Sugar Maple.............
I must admit I thought you were making that one up but google proved you right. What a bizarre and horrible way to die, and who would have even known it was possible?
Cat Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, converted to Islam after his brother, a convert to Judaism, gave him a copy of the Koran. His father was Greek Orthodox, and his mother was a Baptist. He attended Catholic school.