You could buy
You can buy one of the following:
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Mitt Romney's Salary
Yearly income. Image: Gage_Skidmore for US$21,600 thousand (E£150,900 thousand) from source
Buy each rat in New York city
You can buy each rat one of the following items:
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Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 (E£664.50) from waterstones -
Shopping list
You can buy all of the following:
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400 Legs
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of leg above knee, 1996. for £40 thousand (E£428,700) from source -
1 Thumb
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of thumb, 1996. for £15 thousand (E£160,800) from source -
1 UK general election campaign
Average spending per candidate standing in the UK general election, 2010. for £3,489 (E£37,400) from electoral_comission -
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1 Freedom of Information request
Average cost of a request under the UK's Freedom of Information Act, 2010. for £159.80 (E£1,713) from source