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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 (د.ك822,800) from amazon
Buy each rat in New York city
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Carl Sagan's Cosmos DVDs
Inspirational and wide-appeal science series. Thirteen episodes, each one hour long. for £11.71 (د.ك5.13) from source -
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1 Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (د.ك1,012 thousand) from wikipedia -
1 One cube of gold one meter in size
One cube of gold one meter in size for US$1,038 thousand (د.ك296,700) from hardcoded -
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900 Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 (د.ك27.18) from waterstones -