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Fun Fact: If you've ever saved a pressed penny from any destination, you are an "EXONUMIST".

While legal in the US, pressed pennies are illegal in Canada because the Canadian Currency Act forbids using coins for any purpose other than currency. (Although penny-pressing machines do exist in Canada, at least some use a zinc American penny instead of a Canadian coin.)

Pressed penny machines first appeared in the US at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

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I love that old Henry Rollins (where is he now?) quote -"No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go!"

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