It is estimated that by the end of 2000, there has been 142,600 tonnes of gold mined in the world.

Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

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