San Antonio, TX

1. Use for leverage to pry off the lid from a difficult “line-up-the-arrows” childproof medication bottle

2. Tape one to the tail of your kite for a little more stabilizing weight.

3. Teach your toddler to count with them.

4. Teach your little bit older child a little culture and history by looking in the dictionary to find that the American coin is only called a “penny” in slang, and that its proper name is “cent.”

5. Collect in your change jar and cash in when full.

6. Scratch off lottery tickets

7. Make sculptures like penny towers

8. For good luck, place one over every doorway when you move into a home.

9. Fill a sock with pennies for self defense.

10. Play penny poker.

11. Use to open the battery compartment of a remote control.

12. Find one heads up to have good luck.

13. Increase the pH of soil for hydrangeas.

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13 facts about San Antonio

1.) San Antonio is the second largest city in Texas

2.) San Antonio is the seventh most populous city in the United States

3.) San Antonio is the 29th-largest metropolitan area in the USA.

4.) San Antonio has influences of both the American South and Southwest.

5.) San Antonio was named for the Portuguese Saint Anthony of Padua, whose feast day it was (June 13) when a Spanish expedition stopped in the area in 1691.

6.) The city has a strong military presence—it is home to Fort Sam Houston, Lackland Air Force Base, Randolph Air Force Base, and Brooks City-Base, with Camp Bullis and Camp Stanley right outside the city.

7.) San Antonio is home to the South Texas Medical Center, the largest and only medical research and care provider in the South Texas region.

8.) San Antonio is famous for its River Walk, the Alamo, Tejano culture, and being home to SeaWorld and Six Flags Fiesta Texas theme parks.

9.) The city is visited by 20 million tourists per year.

10.) San Antonio claims the most successful National Basketball Association teams in league history, the San Antonio Spurs.

11.) The San Antonio Convention Center hosts more than 300 events each year with over 750,000 convention delegates from around the world.

12.) The jewel of the city is the River Walk, which meanders through the downtown area.

13.) The Fairmont Hotel, built in 1906, is in the Guinness Book of World Records as one of the heaviest buildings ever moved intact. It was placed in its new location, three blocks south of the Alamo, over four days in 1985, and cost $650,000 to move. The Fairmont houses the “Sage Ristorante e Bar.”

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1.) Six Flags- Fiesta Texas

2.) SeaWorld

3.) The River Walk

4.) The San Antonio Zoo

5.) The Alamo Mission

6.) San Antonio Botanical Gardens

7.) Tower of the Americas

8.) Ultimate Mirror Maze Challenge

9.) The Guenther House

10.) Spanish Governor’s Palace

11.) San Antonio IMAX Theatre Rivercenter

12.) Plaza Wax Museum & Ripley’s Believe It or Not

13.) Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch

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