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Olympic swimming pool filled with double gloucester
Olympic swimming pool filled with double gloucester for £19,310 thousand
Thousands of
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Years income of average person
Yearly income of average person (worldwide) for US$7,880 (£5,137) from source -
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1 Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (£2,308 thousand) from wikipedia -
1 Enough gold leaf to cover an American football field
Cover an American football field with a single layer of gold leaf for US$2,879 thousand (£1,877 thousand) from amazon -
1 thousand Thumbs
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of thumb, 1996. for £15 thousand from source -
100 duck islands
Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 from wikipedia -
300 Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 from waterstones