→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: The Real Moby Dick http://bit.ly/1TTraUf How the Milky Way Got Its Name http://bit.ly/1CWKmMy Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear On The Outside http://bit.ly/1HLvFLb In this video: People have been throwing coins into fountains seemingly as long as there have been coins and fountains. The tradition all started with water. While many people in the developed world today have clean, drinkable water readily available from their kitchen taps, this was not always the case. Potable drinking holes in many regions weren’t the easiest things to find. Thus, where clean water was available, many early European tribes believed that such areas were a gift from the gods. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/03/throw-coins-fountains/ Resources/Further Reading: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-wishing-well.htm http://www.anthropology.uci.edu/~wmmaurer/courses/anthro_money_2006/wishing.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178582/Romes-Trevi-Fountain-coins-authorities-crack-thieves-steal-money-water.html http://jdombstravels.com/legend-of-the-trevi-fountain/ http://www.coinbooks.com/esylum_v14n36a18.html http://www.trevifountain.net/trevifountainhistory.htm http://www.wisegeek.com/what-happens-to-coins-thrown-into-fountains.htm Image Credit (Thank you) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Virgin_Mary,_Penrhys.jpg http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/fountain-coins.jpg http://ffe4bfdbf79d40724d6b-b19df3af356e81f99f3ea6fbd79c997c.r64.cf1.rackcdn.com/Three%20Coins1370338347.jpg https://fatherjerabek.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/fontana-trevi-2.jpg http://blog.goldeneaglecoin.com