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Canadian Facts and Trivia - THE LAND
Niagara Falls is much too large to freeze over completely, but on March 30, 1848, the gargantuan flow stopped altogether for about a day and a half, allowing astonished onlookers to walk out onto the river bed.

It turned out the culprit was a large ice jam upriver, and once it had cleared, the falls roared back to life.