- Gold is so malleable just 1 ounce of gold can be stretched over 50 miles
- 25% of the world's gold reserve (540,000 gold bars) is 5 stories underground inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s vault and it holds It contains more gold than Fort Knox but most of it belongs to foreign governments.
- Injectable gold has been used to treat Arthritis
- In 2010 gold reached a record high price 22 times!
- Around 40,000 miners joined the Californian gold rush in 1849 (not many got rich!)
- Some native America Indians believed that consuming gold could make humans levitate
- Gold prices rose 394% from December 2000 to October 2010
- The world pours more steel in an hour than it has poured gold since the beginning of recorded history
- The worlds oceans are estimated to contain 150,000 tonnes of gold
- The Incas referred to gold as "Tears of the sun"
Which finger is the engagement ring worn on?
Which finger is the engagement ring worn on? In the UK, as with many other Western countries, an engagement ring