Cleaning His Grandparents House Led to a Strange Discovery

Appraisal Praise

They knew they had something strange on their hands, so the siblings decided to have their findings appraised. They brought the box to the Tampa Bay History Center. A curator named Rodney Kite-Powell took a look at the coins and hand to see what secrets they held. "They’re a little thin to be Spanish Coins or old coins in general," said Rodney "Generally, older coins were thicker." So, what were they really?

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The More You Know

  • 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.
  • Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" on a bet.
  • Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually in the United States.
  • Clark Kent (Superman in DC Comics) is also a character in the Marvel universe, where he's actually just a mild-mannered reporter and nothing more.
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