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How rabid are Canadian hockey fans? The graph above shows that during the amazing USA - Canada Gold Medal hockey game last Sunday, residents of Edmonton were willing to forego even the most basic of all human needs while the puck was on the ice. Canadian hockey fans were, of course, richly rewarded for their urinary fortitude with a 3-2 overtime win to snatch the gold medal from the upset-minded Americans.

[via Pat's Papers, whose post is aptly titled "What if Everybody in Canada Flushed at Once?"]

Filed under: North America, Canada, United States

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