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You can buy one of the following:
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Thumb
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of thumb, 1996. for £15 thousand (DKK131,100) from source
Buy all billionaires
You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
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Freedom of Information requests
Average cost of a request under the UK's Freedom of Information Act, 2010. for £159.80 (DKK1,396) from source -
Shopping list
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1 Olympic swimming pool filled with tap water
Olympic swimming pool filled with tap water for £3,359 (DKK29,350) from hardcoded -
100 questions in the UK parliament
Payments made to MPs to table parliamentary questions, 1994. for £2 thousand (DKK17,480) from wikipedia -
1 Housing benefit
Average (mean) weekly housing benefit claim in the UK, July 2011 for £87.18 (DKK761.80) from source -
1 Carl Sagan's Cosmos DVD
Inspirational and wide-appeal science series. Thirteen episodes, each one hour long. for £11.71 (DKK102.30) from source -
500 Words by Stephen Fry
Cost per word of Stephen Fry's column for £3 (DKK26.21)