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Did you know Canada holds more lakes than every other country on Earth put together? There are more than 2 million of them, cradling roughly a fifth of all the fresh water on the planet. So many are unnamed that mapmakers simply gave up trying to label them all.

Did you know a small Canadian town is known as the Polar Bear Capital of the World? Each autumn, hundreds of polar bears gather near Churchill, Manitoba, waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze so they can hunt. Locals leave their cars unlocked — in case someone needs to escape a bear.

Did you know Canada's coastline is by far the longest of any country? At roughly 125,500 mi or 202,000 km it accounts for over half of the entire world's coastline — mostly thanks to its vast, island-strewn Arctic shores. You'd need years to walk it all.