In 2010, the US government minted 4,010,830,000 pennies.

That’s about 127 pennies per SECOND.
That’s enough to give every adult on Earth a penny.
If stacked on top of each other, they’d be 3,948 miles high.
3,948 miles is 17 times higher than the space shuttle’s average orbit.

The really dumb thing about pennies? Well, aside from the fact that they cost 1.2 cents to make, there’s a bunch of them actually: