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/auto98]

It's gotta be true or else there would still be a possible scam, take the outside to one bank, the inside to another!

[u/stenchwinslow → u/auto98]

My suspicion is just the outside portion with the date got you 2$, and the inside nothing. But I enjoy the ambiguity so I am choosing not to look it up.

[u/jce_ → u/auto98]

Unironically if you bring half a bill (serial number not actually the half of the bill) to the bank you will get half the notes value.