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.
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