{"id":86679,"date":"2026-02-07T11:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/?p=86679"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:48:00","slug":"the-90-ton-bell-on-a-stamp-myanmars-mingun-flex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/the-90-ton-bell-on-a-stamp-myanmars-mingun-flex\/","title":{"rendered":"The 90-Ton Bell on a Stamp?! <a href=\"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/tag\/myanmar\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with Myanmar\">Myanmar<\/a>&#8216;s Mingun Flex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Union of Burma, now <a href=\"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/tag\/myanmar\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with Myanmar\">Myanmar<\/a>, put the Mingun Bell on a stamp, and yes, it&#8217;s every bit as massive as it sounds. We&#8217;re talking 199,999 pounds of bronze, over 20 feet tall, and so wide it could double as a small building. Cast in 1808 for a mega-stupa that never got finished, this bell survived earthquakes, river crossings, and centuries of tourists trying to ring it. This YouTube Short dives into the story behind the bell, the crazy engineering to move it, and why a tiny stamp might just be one of the boldest flexes in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The 90-Ton Bell on a Stamp?! Myanmar\u2019s Mingun Flex\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ucDZGq7h6ys?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union of Burma, now Myanmar, put the Mingun Bell on a stamp, and yes, it&#8217;s every bit as massive as it sounds. We&#8217;re talking 199,999 pounds of bronze, over 20 feet tall, and so wide it could double as a small building. Cast in 1808 for a mega-stupa that never got finished, this bell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-86679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youtube","tag-myanmar"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86682,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86679\/revisions\/86682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinstampdb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}