10 Interesting Things You Didn't Know About GOLD

Here is our Top 10 Interesting Facts about Gold:

• 1 - The world's heaviest gold ingot weighs 250 pounds.

• 2 - The eucalyptus leaves contain small traces of gold.

• 3 - Pure gold is so soft that it can be bent with bare hands.

• 4 - Every human being has about 0.2 milligrams of gold in the body, the vast majority found in the blood.

• 5 - Almost half of the total gold extracted globally comes from Witwatersrand, South Africa.

• 6 - There is more gold in a ton of computers than in 17 tons of gold ore.

• 7 - 75% of the total gold that is in circulation has been extracted starting with 1910.

• 8 - The oceans contain approximately 20 million tonnes of gold, as estimated by experts in Oceanography.

• 9 - The olympic medals contain only 1.34% gold (about 6 grams). The last time when the medals were made of pure gold was at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.

• 10 - In the center of the Earth is so much gold that it would cover the entire surface of the planet by half a meter of gold.

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