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Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (kn20,390 thousand) from wikipedia
Buy each rat in New York city
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UK Black-and-White Television Licenses
1 Year black-and-white television license, 2011 for £49 (kn432.90) from bbc
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1 Olympic swimming pool filled with untaxed petrol
Olympic swimming pool filled with untaxed petrol for £1,173 thousand (kn10,360 thousand) from hardcoded -
300 Legs
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of leg above knee, 1996. for £40 thousand (kn353,400) from source -
1 Question in the UK parliament
Payments made to MPs to table parliamentary questions, 1994. for £2 thousand (kn17,670) from wikipedia -
5 thousand Freedom of Information requests
Average cost of a request under the UK's Freedom of Information Act, 2010. for £159.80 (kn1,412) from source -
100 Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 (kn547.70) from waterstones