Facts about gold that you might not know.
Gold is one of the most mysterious of substances, which is associated with great value.
Gold is not the rarest element. It doesn’t react with many other elements. It is not radioactive and not toxic, and has a yellow color.
Here are a few fun facts about gold that you may not yet know.
1. From one ton of old mobile phones can be mined more gold than tons of gold ore.
2. If we have extracted all the gold of the ocean, for every person in the world would 4 kg of gold.
3. Hungarian chemist györgy de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel medals of German physicists max von Laue and James Franck to hide them from confiscation by the Nazis. After the war, the medals re-cast.
4. Sailors often wore gold earrings, as if they were drowned and were washed ashore, the earring served as a kind of payment proper burial in a Christian way.
5. Olympic gold medal by only 1% consists of gold.
6. In Dubai there are ATMs issuing gold bullion.
7. Most of the gold in the earth’s crust got there by falling asteroids.
8. Most of the gold on Earth is found in the nucleus, as it slid to the center, when our planet was formed.
9. In 1859, miners in the Rocky mountains woke up at 1 a.m. to have Breakfast. The Aurora was so bright that they thought it was morning.
10. Ice cream tasters use gold spoons to avoid the aftertaste, remaining from ordinary spoons.
11. For the head of a Roman politician Gaius Gracchus was a reward equal to the gold weight with his head. Although the head was delivered, the award has not been paid, as the invader filled his head with lead.
12. Aluminium was considered the most valuable metal on Earth. Rich people eating from aluminum utensils, while the poor used the Golden.
13. Mansa Musa – ruler of Mali Empire once spent so much gold in Egypt that he devalued it and almost destroyed the economy.
14. Chinese prisoners forced to mine gold in World of Warcraft. According to some sources, across the country, there are about 100 000 virtual gold miners.
15. The LEGO company had once offered its employees a brick of gold weighing gram 25,65 25 years of service from them.
16. Gold is edible.
17. Gold is discovered on all continents of our planet.
18. Gold often falls into the water during earthquakes due to pressure deep within the earth’s crust.
19. In the leaves of eucalyptus found traces of gold.
20. Three Olympic swimming pools is able to accommodate all the gold mined in the history of mankind.
21. Nearly half of this gold was extracted in one place – the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
22. Aurophobia is the fear of gold.
23. Indian Housewives possess nearly 11 percent of the world’s gold. This is more than in the United States, Switzerland, Germany and the International monetary Fund put together.
24. The largest gold bar weighs 250 kg.
25. Our body contains about 0.2 mg of gold, mainly in the blood.
