- If you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
- 2 million hydrogen atoms would be required to cover a full stop (.).
- Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year.
- The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
- Commercial airplanes maintain a cabin pressure of about 6,400 feet (just over 1 mile) above sea level.
- In American supermarkets peanut butter is one of the most frequently purchased items.
- One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.
- Iatrophobia is the fear of doctors.
- Europe is the only continent without a desert.
- The human body of a 70 kg person contains 0.2mg of gold.
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