The total weight of all the gold ever mined in human history would fit into roughly three Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Why it is true
It is estimated that all mined gold would form a cube about twenty-two meters on each side, which corresponds to the volume of three Olympic pools, due to the extreme density and rarity of the metal.
Source: Economics
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