Fort Knox holds less than half of America’s gold
Despite its legendary reputation as an impenetrable fortress of wealth, Fort Knox is basically just the government's overflow storage unit. Holding about 147 million ounces of gold, it actually contains less than half of the U.S. Treasury's stockpile. The rest is scattered around in places like West Point and Denver. Turns out James Bond villains have been fixating on the wrong vault.

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