What you probably don’t know about the gold.
Because of the diversity of minerals that people chose gold. From time immemorial, yellow metal has been the cause of wars and reconciliations, for him, our ancestors fought and will probably fight our descendants. But why gold, because there are much more precious and rare elements.
In fact, gold has a lot of advantages. Its not too much and not too little — just enough so that the value could be preserved. Gold is not radioactive, not toxic and does not react with other elements. And here’s some surprising facts about this precious metal.
Do sailors wore gold earrings. In this way they insured their posthumous existence: sold earring of friends a decent burial of a sailor.
Gold can not only raise, but to destroy the economy. Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire once produced as much precious metal in Egypt that began the devaluation.
China uses prisoners to mine gold. However, do the virtual mine: citizens of the bandits pulled of the change in World Of Warcraft. Sources report a hundred thousand army forced the gamers of China.
There is no continent without gold. The last war for this precious metal will probably take place in the snowy deserts of the Arctic.
In the leaves of eucalyptus also contains gold.
All the gold ever mined on Earth can fit in three swimming pools of Olympic standards.
Almost half of all the world’s gold was mined in Witwatersrand, South Africa.
There are people who are afraid of gold. The disease called aurophobia.
Most of the gold ended up in the pockets of Indian Housewives. These modest beauties owns about 11% of gold in the world.
The largest gold bar in the world weighs 250 kg.
Most of the gold in the earth’s crust is extraterrestrial in origin. This precious metal gave us the meteorites.
Olympic gold consists of gold only 1%.
One ton of cell phones contains more gold than a ton of gold ore.
In Dubai there are ATMs issuing gold bullion.
Ice cream testers use gold spoons to arrest the aftertaste. Aesthetes!
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