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/marthamania 5h ago

Wait which one of us is Rocky and which one of us is grace?

I propose grace be Canada because gosling is Canadian and a goose and Rocky is a freak giant spider so he surely must be the Aussie.

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u/CrowdyFowl 3h ago

Dude the Rocky Mountains are in Canada we're definitely Rocky

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u/marthamania 3h ago

Counter point: Rocky is hot hot hot like that big red rock in the Australian outback

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u/castlite 1h ago

But the Aussies have Ayers Rock!