Canada is big and sparse, of course we are.
But, what is a mile?
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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An overcompensated kilometer.
It's an SI-derived unit equivalent to 8 furlongs
what is a mile?
1600 large baguette.
He had 6000 feet?
He’s either amazing at walking or incapable of it… 🤔
About 1,500 liters of maple syrup
1 mile is 5280 feet
how many football fields is that?
It's 7320 poutines. I'm not sure about football fields.
14.666666...
He was an incredible trumpeter and compose. Feet, though?
Iirc The best Sniper in WW1 was a Canadian (An indigenous one to) then came the white death who best his record in Finland, then a Canadian sniper beat him while serving in the middle east
Correct me if I'm wrong, I might have my facts mixed up.
trained by Finns?
As of the 2016 census, there are 143,645 Canadians of Finnish ancestry.
And we did just pick a Finnish rifle to equip the Canadian Rangers with
Call in a Canadian to Finnish the job.
Fuckin deadly!
Marksmanship is quite popular up here
Whose feet? 🦶