10 Random Alberta facts...it's where I'm from afterall

1. Alberta has the world's largest lamp
This monument burns bright at 12.8 metres tall and lights up the town of Donalda, which has an oil lamp museum.
2. Alberta has the world's largest Western Boot
This monster-sized footwear was stitched out of firbreglass in Edmonton in 1989 at a cost of $200,000 to promote the shoe factory it stands in front of.
3. Gretzky played for the Edmonton Oilers the very first year the team joined the National Hockey League in 1979, when they amazed everyone and made it to the Stanley Cup playoffs.
4. It would take three full 24-hour days to visit all of West Edmonoton Mall's 800 stores for just five minutes each.
5. Alberta is Canada's only rat-free province. It's been clean since 1905.
6. Alberta has the best overall weather of all the Canadian provinces.
7. The hottest day on record in Alberta is 43.3 Celsius, shared by Brooks, which hit that high in July 1931 and Fort Macleod which hit the same high a decade later in 1941.
8. About 5.5 million cattle can be found in Alberta, outnumbering people by almost 2 to 1.
9. The World's largest pyrogy is in Glendon. Otherwise known as a Ukranian dumpling, the pyrogy is spiked onto a giant fork, stands 6.2 metres tall and weighs 2700 kilograms.
10. Canada's first ever food bank started in Edmonton.