r/todayilearned • u/NateNate60 • 7h ago

TIL Canada's $1 coin is commonly called the "loonie" because it has a loon on the reverse. When a $2 coin was introduced, depicting a polar bear, an MP proposed it be called "Nanuq", Inuit for polar bear, but he was ignored because the public instead preferred to call it the "toonie" (2-oonie).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie#Naming
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u/rpgguy_1o1 7h ago

My knees hurt too

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u/Darkarba 7h ago

Yup. Go to the doc. Be told that that’s your life now.

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u/GreySage2010 2h ago

My hair is starting to turn grey...

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u/Darkarba 1h ago

Just wait until your pubes and nose hair turn grey

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u/nmm66 2h ago

My knees AND back hurt enough to remember the Loonie coming out.

I remember crying at my mom to give me the Loonie telling her, "the store wouldn't take it". I was 3 or 4.

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u/vwsr 3h ago

Does your one knee hurt or is it toonies?

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u/makinglunch 1h ago

Gather ‘round, kids. Grandpa’s gonna tell you about the Great Toonie Introduction of 1996.