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You can buy one of the following:
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Sunflower painting
Auction price of the van Gogh painting, 1987 for US$39,900 thousand (B382,500) from source
Buy all billionaires
You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
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Lunches with Sir Roger Moore and Terry Wogan
Charity Auction for Children In Need. Photo: Allan Warren. for £75 thousand (B1,103) from source
Shopping list
You can buy all of the following:
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1 Empire State Building
Cost of Empire State Building when built in 1931, including cost of land for US$40,950 thousand (B392,600) from source -
1 Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (B33,950) from wikipedia -
1 One cube of gold one meter in size
One cube of gold one meter in size for US$1,038 thousand (B9,953) from hardcoded -
1 Housing benefit
Average (mean) weekly housing benefit claim in the UK, July 2011 for £87.18 (B1.28) from source