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| The waters of the Planetary Ocean contain silver - 0.3 mg/m3 and gold - 0.008 mg/m3. The total quantity of gold is 11 billion tons, but its concentration is unprofitable for extraction. |
| The quantity of dissolved minerals in the waters of the Planetary Ocean is 50x1016 tons. This qunatity is enough to cover the ground of the Ocean with a 60m thick layer, the land surface with - 153m , or all the Planet with a 45m thick layer. |
| The mass of our Sun is 1,98x1030 Kg (that is 198000000000000000000000000000000 Kg. |
| The mass of the planet Earth is 6,37x1024 Kg (that is 6370000000000000000000000 Kg. |
| 95 percent of all the people who get polio are under the age of 5. |
| HIV/AIDS has created more than 14 million orphans — 92 percent of them live in Africa. |
| 134 million children between the ages of 7 to 18 have never been to school. |
| Girls are more likely to go without schooling than boys — in the Middle East and North Africa, girls are three times more likely than boys to be denied education. |
| For every year of education, wages increase by a worldwide average of 10 percent. |
| Educated mothers tend to send their children to school, helping to break the cycle of poverty. |
| In the last decade, more than 2 million children have died as a direct result of armed conflict. |
| More than 300,000 child soldiers are exploited in armed conflicts in over 30 countries around the world. |
| 2 million children are believed to be exploited through the commercial sex trade. |
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