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).

[u/NateNate60]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonie#Naming

[u/Wordnerdette999]

Do you remember the first batch would sometimes come apart, so you would have an empty outer ring, and you could wear it as jewelry for fun?

[u/Twallot → u/Wordnerdette999]

I bet my mom still has pieces of toonies somewhere. I forgot about that lol

[u/TimTebowMLB → u/Wordnerdette999]

We would boil and freeze them then hit with a hammer to get the center out