Check out the BrainFood podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-brainfood-show/id1350586459?mt=2 (Or search your favorite podcast app for “BrainFood”) →Some of our favorites: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR0XuDegDqP10d4vrztQ0fVzNnTiQBEAA →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: Why Do We Say Costs Can be Footed By Someone? https://youtu.be/eEojr1EFP_M In this video: The word “penny” may have come from the English ruler Penda, King of Mencia (an Anglo-Saxton kingdom in today’s English midlands). During his reign from 626 AD to 655 AD, he issued coins that were called “pending.” To further this theory along, the old English word word for penny is “penige.” In fact, the Danish still uses the word “Penge” for their money. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/12/origin-phrase-penny-thoughts/ Sources: http://pdphoto.org/ http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4684/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-a-penny-for-your-thoughts http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pen1.htm http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/relativevalue.php?use%5B%5D=CPI&use%5B%5D=NOMINALEARN&year_late=2005&typeamount=308&amount=308&year_source=2005&year_result=2014 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/results.asp#mid http://www.wisegeek.org/what-does-a-penny-for-your-thoughts-mean.htm http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1963/whats-the-origin-of-a-penny-for-your-thoughts https://archive.org/details/fourlastthings00more http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/05/penny-for-your-thoughts/ http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/penny http://books.google.com/books?id=X4kgDkYxGrcC&lpg=PA164&pg=PA164#v=onepage&q=penny&f=false https://archive.org/details/proverbsandepig00heywgoog http://www.theatrehistory