Have you ever heard the myth that if you drop a penny from the top of the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario Canada it could kill a person? So is that true? How high would you have to drop a penny to kill someone?

Already busted on the show.

It doesn't matter how high you drop it from; the terminal velocity of a penny is too slow for it to cause any serious harm.

lol, taking an American myth changing its location and claiming Canadian origin

Funnier yet is opening an account to post an overposted, already-busted myth to begin with (and calling it a Canadian myth). Gee, that certainly breaks the monotony of 'will a penny off the Empire State Building" doesn't it? Then again, the Empire State Building broke the monotony of the Eiffel Tower and I'm sure something before that.

Last winter, there was ice falling off the CN Tower and onto downtown Toronto.

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Originally posted by maxman:
Last winter, there was ice falling off the CN Tower and onto downtown Toronto.

... and worse, onto the Gardiner Expressway.

True, it's best to let the 'mericans have the 'penny drop' myth. It was the Empire State building, sometimes the Sears Tower. I'm sure in Kuala Lumpur kids talk about ringgits off the Petronas towers. In Taiwan it's NT$ off Taipei 101 and soon it'll be dirhams off the Burj Dubai.

I don't know the origin of the penny drop myth, but I remember hearing the same thing about the CN tower in Toronto after it was completed in 1975. I also heard that a penny dropped from it would embed itself into concrete several inches. This was busted on the show because the penny does not have sufficient mass to do it. It is a simple physics equation: Force equals mass times acceleration.