These 9 really big Canadian roadside attractions hold a few records — via drivingdotca
Well, not for long. Canada may have many difficult-to-solve problems at the moment, but out-embiggening Norwegians is not one of them. With quick action, Mac had his original antlers removed and replaced with an even larger rack, making him slightly taller than Norway’s moose statue, and restoring Canadian delegates the ability to walk into the U.N. without hearing any sniggering from the Scandinavians. Once again, we had the World’s Largest Moose.
Like, really big. Weighing in at 12,000 kg and nine metres in diameter, the Big Nickel is the largest depiction of a coin in the world. The origins seem pretty straightforward: Sudbury is a big nickel-mining town, so why not pay tribute with a huge coin? In total, the Big Nickel cost $35,000 when it was unveiled in 1964, or the equivalent of $325,000 today. That’s 6.5 million nickels, if you’re wondering, or roughly twice what the Big Nickel weighs worth of pocket change.Not far from the Royal Tyrrell Museum in the badlands of Alberta, the world’s largest dinosaur towers over a parking lot near a public park. It’s perhaps not the most accurate representation of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, knowing as we do now that T.
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