But a lack of coins is no problem at the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores.
The aquarium — which is soon to enter its sixth month of mandated closure, thanks to the coronavirus — has come up with a pandemic project that can pass the timeThey've drained a large waterfall at the facility and dredged up all the coins thrown in by wishful visitors. "About 100 gallons of coins were cleaned and sorted and will go toward the general care of the aquarium and animals during this time," the aquarium said in a Facebook post last week.
It asked commenters to guess how much money 100 gallons of coins adds up to, and will reveal the answer this week. Our staff turned off the 30-foot tall Smoky Mountain waterfall and collected all the coins! About 100 gallons of coins...
What does 100 gallons of pocket change look like?
WOW
AHA! So THAT'S where all those nickels and dimes have been hiding.
I've been to this aquarium and people that run it treat it like the treasure it is. Americans are undereducated as it is and children and adults alike have learned much about conservation and respecting our water creatures.
LMAO that’s about as “broke-ass” as it gets LMAO
It’s a coin shortage too.
‘100 gallons,’ that’s an interesting way of measuring spare change
Coin shortage fixed!
Gotta do what you gotta do
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Isn't that Fucked up shady shit going on there!
I ... can’t believe they don’t do that more ofte
We need the coins...
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And how does Sean Astin feel about that?
Copper is poisonous to a lot of animals.
Penny for your thoughts....
You can't do that. Those are other people's wishes. Didn't you watch goonies? 😄 Kick out your Dem leaders, re-open, then you won't have to count pennies.
Can I have some?
Smart.
Why use gallons? Like pick pounds or something lol
I hope they have someone going through the pile looking for rare coins
Is this the same concept that inspired the savings app Digit?
🤪😂😂😂
trump will probably take credit for this as well...
Welp!! Penny shortage solved!!
Good, excessive copper levels are bad for the fish
This breaks my heart
🐧🐧🐧 Penguins down at the Coinstar machine like 'hey.'
If anything, these pennies should have been melted down and turned into some fantastic sculpture to decorate the waterfall! RUDE.
Really?
Werent most of these places like “ do not throw coins “ locations or was this flat out a wishing well.
$50,000. That should help
That will help the coin shortage too
We’ve all been there. Pulling out the change jar to pay the bills. Just as long as they don’t start selling the fish and such!!!!
This is a wonderful place! We visit every time we vacation in Emerald Isle, NC.
Hence the coin shortage!
They should return the captive creatures back to their natural habitats if possible. That would save a ton of money, wouldn't it? It would also end the cruelty perpetrated when we imprison non-human animals for our amusement.
Did someone tell Trump about fountains?
6to12elbow resolving the coin shortage in NC and putting laundromats all over the state back in business.
It’s at least $7,771 if it’s all pennies. Formula: there are exactly 231 cubic inches in a US gallon, this translates into 231/V. For pennies (diameter: 0.75', thickness: 1.55 mm) the above computation would give a 'V' of about 0.029727 cu in, or about 7771 pennies per gallon.
This is sad and so 2020worstyear
That should put a dent into this national change shortage from the US mint. They should sell it back to the government at double giving supply & demand.
40000$?
How are they not scraping this every week? That’s money, man!
Maybe I should check my old couch?
They're really getting committed to taking coins out of circulation
Assholes!!wtf.
This is sad 😔
Oh, no! Now their wishes won't come true! 😢
Oh man. Been there, done that.
Wow!
NY and Chitcago can use the money.
So the coin crisis is over?
Good luck all of you!
What better use for those coins...than to help keep the ‘dreams alive’ for future visitors
That's sad
You can measure pocket change in gallons?
Hard times indeed
Did Mikey from The Goonies write this headline?
trying to cover lost revenue
Insert Goonies reference.
$53,600
Damn
Welcome to my world
There's your change shortage! Lol
by draining it they have irreparably damaged the life of those fish and crustecean's that rely on it
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