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.
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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.
