The world's largest gold bar weighs 250 kg (551 lb).
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Gold has been discovered on every continent on earth.
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Gold is edible.
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Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood.
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Earthquakes turn water into gold.
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Small traces of gold have been found in the leaves of Eucalyptus trees.
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More gold is recoverable from a ton of personal computers than from 17 tons of gold ore.
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Olympic Gold Medals only contain 1.34% of gold.
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3 Olympic swimming pools can hold all the gold ever mined in the world.
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Six ten-billionths of the Sun is gold.
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Over 6 milligrams of gold are lost every year from a Wedding Ring just by wearing it.
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The world's oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold.
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The world pours more steel in an hour than
it has poured gold since the beginning of recorded history.
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Nearly all of the gold on Earth came from meteorites that bombarded the planet over 200 million years after it formed.
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Carat weight can be 10, 12, 14, 18, 22, or 24. The higher the number, the greater the purity.
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24k Gold melts at 1063°C or 1945°F.
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Nearly half the gold ever mined has come
from one place: Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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There is enough gold in Earth's core to coat its entire surface to a depth of 1.5 feet.
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In 2014, Dubai launched a program that pays children 2 grams of gold for every kilogram (2.2 pounds) of weight they lose.
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Aurophobia is the fear of gold.
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Indian housewives hold 11% of the World's Gold. That is more than the reserves of the U.S., IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.
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Mr. T's gold collection is worth over US$120,000.
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The most valuable legal tender coin in the world is a US$1 million coin from Australia. Since it weighs 1,000 kg and is 99.99% pure gold, it is worth almost US$45 million.
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McLaren F1's engines are built with gold.
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Injecting gold into the body can help fight cancer.
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All the gold ever mined in the world could fit into a cube with sides of 20.7m (68ft).
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Alchemist Hennig Brand believed that he could distill gold from human urine. After stockpiling 1,500 gallons of urine and boiling it, he discovered phosphorus.
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There are 52,000 tonnes of minable gold still in the ground worth US$2 trillion.
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Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones in 2015. That's worth about US$40 million.
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A ton of iPhones yield 300 times more gold than a ton of gold ore.
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About one-fifth of all the gold held by the world's governments, worth about US$248 billion, is stored beneath the streets of London.
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NASA estimates that the near-Earth asteroid, Eros, contains 20 billion tons of gold.
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A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a sheet covering nearly 100 square feet, or drawn out into 50 miles of gold wire.
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The world's most expensive iPhone 5 was worth US$15 million. It was made of 135 grams of 24-carat gold and the chassis was inlaid with 600 white diamonds.
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The famous barbarian leader Attila accepted hefty subsidies in gold in exchange for not attacking Roman territory — then did it anyway.
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After Switzerland, the world's largest per capita gold reserves are held by Lebanon.
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Your hair contains traces of gold.
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About half of the world's gold supply is devoted to jewelry or industrial use.
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