Penny Make Over

With the new penny designed being annoucned, I thought I'd post some penny fun facts:

The plural of penny is pence when referring to the amount of money and pennies when referring to the actual coin.

The British idiom, "to spend a penny," means to urinate. The phrase came from when some public toilets used to be coin-operated.

Finding a penny is considered lucky.

Pennies were the very first coin minted in the U.S.

Lincoln's portrait on the penny is the only coin portrait that faces to the right.

Today is my Birthday

1189- Richard I of England crowned.

1568- Adriano Banchieri born.

1783- American Revolutionary war ends with the Treaty of Paris. America is officially free of Britain.

1939- World War II begins when France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany.

1944- Anne Frank and her family are placed in the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz.

1951- The first long running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on CBS.

1955- Steve Jones born.

1963- Amber Lynn born.

1965- Charlie Sheen born.

1979- Tomo Milicevic born.

1986- Shaun White Born.

1995- eBay founded.