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Canada has more lakes than every other country combined

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If you want to escape humanity, move to a Canadian lake; there are quite literally millions of them to choose from. Glacial movements from the last Ice Age violently carved out massive craters across the country, creating over sixty percent of the entire planet's lakes. You could visit a new one every day and not finish before the sun explodes.

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