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Top 10 interesting facts about Gold

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Here is the most top 10 interesting facts about Gold :- 

1 - Three and a half Olympic swimming pools could hold all the gold ever mined in the world.

2 - Gold has its own E number.

3 - More gold is recoverable from a tonne of personal computers than from 17 tonnes of gold ore.

4 - The gold dissolved in the world’s oceans is estimated to be worth $475 trillion: about 30 times the US public debt.

5 - The International Space Station has cost more than 30 times its own weight in gold.
Top 10 interesting facts about Gold

6 - Uranium is 40 times more common than silver and 500 times more common than gold.

7 - After Switzerland, the world’s largest per capita gold reserves are held by Lebanon. 

8 - Six ten-billionths of the Sun is gold. If the 1,200,000,000,000,000 tonnes of it could be extracted, there would be enough to gild Scotland to the depth of half a mile.

9 - The gold medals at London 2012 were the largest and heaviest ever awarded at a Summer Olympics, but are only 1.34% gold.

10 - Gold color is Gold.

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