Did You Know? Vancouver is one of the host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, bringing the world’s biggest sporting event to Canada’s west coast. In June 2026, more than 52,000 fans filled BC Place to watch Canada defeat Qatar 6–0, marking Canada’s first-ever men’s World Cup victory. The stadium erupted with excitement as…
Before Arc de Triomphe became one of the world’s most famous monuments, Paris nearly built something completely different in its place: a gigantic hollow elephant. An 18th-century architect imagined a three-story elephant with rooms inside and water spraying from its trunk like a fountain. Instead, Napoleon Bonaparte commissioned the Arc de Triomphe in 1806 to…