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AMAZING! World Record-Breaking Penny Pyramid Made Just From Pennies

Have you ever seen hundreds of thousands of pennies in one place? Maybe. But I bet you have never seen all those one-cent coins stacked into a pyramid!

The Guinness World Record penny pyramid took over 300 hours to build and consists of thousands of dollars of one-cent coins. Imagine stacking all those pennies up like that! I bet his fingers were pretty tired after building that pyramid...

The penny pyramid in the video contains over 289,000 pennies (1 ton of pennies) and can potentially grow to a whopping 500,000 pennies!

The penny pyramid is being built for a good cause. Mr. Carlos Conde is among the 50,000 who died in 2006 of colorectal cancer, and the penny pyramid is devoted to bringing awareness to getting colorectal cancer screenings -- which everybody should have done by age 50 (if not before, based on family history and other factors).

By the way, I have to wonder if any of those hundreds of thousands of pennies just happen to be among the several rare or scarce Lincoln cents which collectors and investors love. Hmm... imagine how long it would take to check all those pennies!