Some golden facts which would surprise you all
- All the gold ever produced on earth will fit into three swimming pools of olympic standards.
- Indian housewives own a whopping 11% gold in the world
- Eucalyptus leaves also contains gold
- One ton of cell phones have more gold than one ton ore of gold.
- Olympic gold medal has only 1% gold
- Largest gold bar weighs 0.25 ton
- Mansa Musa, ruler of the Malian empire once obtained so much gold that its devaluation began.
- Almost half of the gold was mined in withwatersrand, South Africa
- Most of the gold in earth’s crust is of extra terrestrial origin . Gold was presented to us by meteorites.
- Some people are afraid of gold. The disease is called aurophobia.
- In Dubai there are ATMs that issue gold bullion.
- Gold has been discovered on every continent on earth.
- Gold is edible
- More gold can be recovered from ton of personal computer than from 17 tons of gold ore.
- World's oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold.
- Mclaren F1’s engine is lined with 16g of gold to reflect heat
- Our bodies contain about 0.2 miligrams of gold all in our blood.
- Over 6 milligrams of gold is lost from a wedding ring just by wearing it.
- Mr T’s gold collection is worth over US$120,000
- All the gold ever mined on earth could fit into a cube with side of 20.7m
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