Common Myths That Have Been Debunked By Science

Dropping a Penny Off of The Empire State Building Will Not Kill Anyone

A penny weighs roughly 1/11th of one ounce. This means that the terminal velocity of a penny caps out around 50 MPH. If you factor in any wind conditions on the day, that number shrinks. Getting hit by a penny traveling 50 MPH will not kill you, but it might sting a bit. 

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The More You Know

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  • The world record for the tallest stack of doughnuts totaled more than 3,000.
  • The largest known living organism is an aspen grove.
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
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