*Updated Oct 16, 2019
These 10 weird facts about gold will make you wonder.
Did you know that gold can be eaten with caviar and is considered a delicacy?
Did you know that gold only forms in space when a massive star explodes?
Doughnut with gold shavings
1. Gold can be eaten during that special dinner
Gold is edible but is not digested. For example, the Emirates Palace, a luxury hotel in United Arab Emirates, served about 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of gold in 2008.
Male human body
2. Even the poorest man on Earth owns gold
Human body contains trace amounts of gold. In fact, a 70-kilogram human contains about 0.2 milligrams of gold.
Remnants of a star explosion (NASA)
3. Mother of gold is a star
Gold is only formed when one of the massive stars explodes.
The high-energy explosion happens at the end of a star life cycle. At this stage the start may shine as bright as 10 billion suns!
Open heart surgery
4. There are golden hearts indeed!
In medicine, gold is used to replace a damaged tissue after a heart attack!
Italy and Mediterranean from space
5. Don’t worry world, there is still some gold left
In the entire human history, only 165,000 tonnes of gold has been mined.
On the other hand, 70,000,000 is the amount that is estimated to be dissolved in oceans.
While 10,000,000,000 (10 billion) is estimated to be found on ocean floors.
Olympic ‘gold’ medal (1996)
6. Olympic gold medal is actually made of silver
This gold medal used to award successful competitors at the Olympic Games contains less than 2% of gold. In this regard, it is more a silver medal as it is composed of over 90% of silver!
Carob seeds
7. The word ‘karat’ is the child of the word ‘carob’
The word ‘karat’, a measure of purity of gold, comes from the word ‘carob’, a seed.
Because of their unusual similarity in mass, in antiquity, carob seeds put on a balance scale were used to measure the weight of gold.
Babylonstoren, Paarl, South Africa
8. South Africa is ‘Mecca’ for gold
South Africa contributes to 50% of gold mined every year in the entire world.
Gold necklace from Bulgaria
9. Gold jewellery will never go out of style
Over 70% of total gold mined every year around the world is used for making jewellery.
Astronaut helmet
10. Gold saves astronauts from death
Astronaut helmets are coated with gold to block harmful ultraviolet radiation coming from the sun.
Incredible things, right?
♣ Yes, I want to open a gold savings account now ♣
Main reference:
www.livescience.com
Hello Margarita, this is amazing! I think not only of me and even others too because I have shown this page to my sisters and they all say the same, you know why because most of us use gold at home as accessories but we all did not know about this at all and that is why we found this so amazing.
And it’s real a nice thing to let others know what you know because what I think without passing to your page and reading this I would not know all of these about gold.
For this I must say thank you so much and I really appreciate what you are doing a lot.
Thank you micmicy for your feedback! Hold on to those gold accessories as they will never lose value.
You’re awesome !
Thank you for the visit Steven!