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Watch what happens when a penny is dropped from a skyscraper
For years, people have warned that a penny dropped from a skyscraper could kill someone below. To find out if the famous story is true, researchers recreated the scenario by dropping pennies from above and measuring the impact. The results reveal how air resistance limits the speed of small objects, even after long falls. The surprising experiment shows why the skyscraper penny myth doesn’t behave the way many people expect.
