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You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
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Rooms at The Langham Hotel, London
Bed and breakfast in Classic Room at the Langham Hotel, London. for £310.80 (COL$907 thousand) from source
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1 House
Average (mean) cost of a House in the United Kindgom, 2010 for £251,600 (COL$734,300 thousand) from source -
1 Thumb
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of thumb, 1996. for £15 thousand (COL$43,770 thousand) from source -
1 Enough gold leaf to cover your body
Cover your body with a single layer of gold leaf for US$968 (COL$1,842 thousand) from amazon -
3 thousand Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 (COL$180,900) from waterstones -
400 Carl Sagan's Cosmos DVDs
Inspirational and wide-appeal science series. Thirteen episodes, each one hour long. for £11.71 (COL$34,170) from source