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Arizona man builds pyramid from 1,030,315 pennies
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| June 21, 2019 / 10:49 AM
| Ben Hooper
Posted on 06/22/2019 12:14:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Nielsen said the pyramid took him exactly three years to assemble and weighs 6,360 pounds. He said the pyramid is composed of 93,665 small stacks of 11 pennies. The base of the structure is 65 stacks long and 65 stacks wide.
"The way I built it, I take 11 pennies; I made a little stack, and I just place them on the ground; there is no glue, no adhesives or anything like that, and you just kind of free stack them on top of each other, and I go up consistently," Nielsen told The Arizona Republic.
He said the world record attempt was inspired when a coworker asked if his previous penny pyramid, made from about 47,000 coins, was a world record.

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: pennies; stacker
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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator
To: BenLurkin
terrifically creative.
People used to do things like that all the time, instead of gawping on computers.
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posted on
06/22/2019 12:59:26 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
To: TIElniff; Flick Lives
I think it looks cool. Hard to believe he didn’t use glue. It could be in an art museum.
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posted on
06/22/2019 12:59:39 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
I had that many pennies. The bank wouldn’t take them unless I rolled them.
I can’t figure out why they were so mad when the ball of pennies crashed through their front door.
To: Larry Lucido
Some people have no sense of humor, Larry.
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:00:49 PM PDT
by
sport
To: sport
To: BenLurkin; Larry Lucido
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:08:45 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: BenLurkin
beaTs the crucifix in a urine bottle art. Give him an NEA grant.
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:15:12 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: BenLurkin
If this guy is obsessive-compulsive, so am I: I ran the math and dimensions on his pyramid. (It checks out.)
Over 20 cubic feet of pennies, 5,678.64 pounds. Maybe a car company can use this to show off pickup truck carrying capacity?
To: BenLurkin
What precision!
That alone is impressive.
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:23:11 PM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: BenLurkin; Daffynition
... and then he realized that he’d dropped his keys somewhere.
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:27:54 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(The pun is mightier than the s-word.)
To: BenLurkin
The “Hidden Chambers”
Must Really be Cool.
.
But get a Dog.
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:28:49 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(Despised by the Despicable!)
To: SaveFerris
Ah, now that’s going to be stuck in my head all day!
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:29:24 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Is This accomplishment
The the High point of
His Life?
Good job,Buddy.
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:31:46 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(Despised by the Despicable!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:33:22 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: BenLurkin
be has a lot of common cents. /s
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:35:43 PM PDT
by
SMGFan
("God love ya! What am I talking about")
To: Yossarian
[5,678.64 pounds.]
Would have been really cool if it had worked out to
5,678.90 pounds.
(a bit OCD to sometimes, LOL)
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:36:50 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: BenLurkin
I knew pennys had to be good for something.
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:39:57 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(My tagline ran off with another man.)
To: BenLurkin
This is what I envision government bureaucrats doing after coffee and donuts
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:43:51 PM PDT
by
Track9
To: Big Red Badger
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posted on
06/22/2019 1:46:22 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(RIP T.P.)
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