Incredible Facts About Gold by Allan Michael Taylor

We admire and aspire gold; there is surely no doubt about that. Nevertheless, how much of our awareness actually contains of information about it. My anticipation says very less. Read the declared evidences below and be truthful to yourself when searching how many of these did you know about.
26. All the seven continents have gold buried under their crusts.
27. The manufacture of gold is very less. Additional steel is produced per hour than the whole gold production since ancient times.
28. The melting point of gold is 1064.43 centigrade.
29. It certainly not tarnishes, as it is chemically inert.
30. It is supposed that most of the gold (80%) is still underground buried.
31. As per the medical study in France carried out during the twentieth century, gold is useful curing for rheumatoid arthritis.
32. Gold is not poisonous, and is put into fruit, jelly munchies, coffee, and tea in some Asian countries. Even Europeans are known to have put gold leaf in bottle of liquor.
33. John Deason and Richard Oates of Australia found the largest chunk of gold in 1869. The piece weighed 2248 ounces of pure gold and was 10 by 25 inches. The most humorous thing is that it was found only two inches below the ground surface.
34. Due to the eminence of gold being inert, it does not cause skin irritation. You should remember if your gold jewellery irritates your skin then it is perhaps not pure gold.
35. One cubic foot of gold weighs half a ton.
36. The largest gold slab weighs 200 Kg.
37. Olympics gold medals are not purely of gold. They used to be until 1912.
38. As per a Greek myth, gold was a dense amalgamation of water and sunlight.
39. King Ferdinand of Spain coined an everlasting saying in 1511, "Get gold humanely if possible â€" but at all hazards get gold."
40. Gold and copper were first metals to be exposed by men in 5000BC.
41. What is harder to find one-ounce gold piece or a five-carat diamond? No, you are thinking wrong. One-ounce gold piece is not easy to look for.
42. In every cubic mile of sea water there is 25tons of gold and there are 10 billion tons of gold in the oceans.
43. Only 88000 tons of gold has been mined out from the earth ever since records have been made.
44. It is harder to win a chief state sweepstake than to discover gold.

45. Carat was in fact a unit of weight based on the carob bean and used by Middle East's ancient merchants.
46. Carat is still used as a measure of weight for gems.
47. The Egyptian civilisations were the first people to utilise gold for jewellery.
48. Largely cell phones, computers, calculators, television, and other electronic things contain gold.
49. Gold is the only expensive metal that is yellow or golden in colour.
50. 90% of the gold has been revealed on earth's surface in desert, mountains, stifling climates, and Arctic regions.