nPostednMay 23, 2015
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“Seena penny, pick it up…
“Seena penny, pick it up…n
n Allnthe day, you’ll have good luck!”
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nThatnfamiliar almost-rhyme is either much easier to follow, these days, ornmuch tougher to follow. I’m not sure which! Watch out for pennies,nand get back to me!
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nYounsee, pennies used to be worth something. You could buy so many kindsnof candy for a penny a piece, stores used to call their bulk candynaisles “Penny Candy.” (Also, there was a 1954 songnby that name!)
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nNow,na single piece of candy – or even a gumball – is usually worth a nickel, a dime, or evennmore.
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nSo,nsince you can’t buy anything at all with a single penny, and sincenmachines that accept coin payment for food don’t accept pennies, Inwould think that hardly anyone would bother to pick up any penniesnthat happen to fall…And that would (it seems to me) make it a lotneasier to find pennies.
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But,non the other hand, since pennies are so worthless these days, most ofnus don’t even want to bother with them in our pockets or coin purses,nso we leave them in donation jugs or those little “take a penny,nleave a penny” trays. And that would mean that there would be a lotnfewer pennies falling in the first place, which would make it a lotnharder to find pennies!
But,non the other hand, since pennies are so worthless these days, most ofnus don’t even want to bother with them in our pockets or coin purses,nso we leave them in donation jugs or those little “take a penny,nleave a penny” trays. And that would mean that there would be a lotnfewer pennies falling in the first place, which would make it a lotnharder to find pennies!n
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nArenpennies really lucky?
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nOfncourse, picking up a penny cannot change your “luck.” The beliefnthat it could is a superstition – a bit of folklore that tells usnthat people wished that they could control their lives, including allnthe uncontrollable things like weather and other people’s andnanimals’ behavior. In actual fact, good and bad things happen toneverybody.
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nCheckn out how this superstition started on Wonderopolis.
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- Educaten yourself on how obsolete pennies are here.
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| Right now it takes more than two cents to make a single penny. That means our government goes a little bit more in debt with every penny it makes. And it makes billions of pennies a year! |
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- Educaten yourself on what your old (and I mean really old) pennies are here.
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nMusiciannand inventor Bob Moog’s birthday
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WorldnTurtle Day
WorldnTurtle Dayn
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nAnniversarynof the invention of the accordion
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