You could buy
You can buy one of the following:
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Sunflower painting
Auction price of the van Gogh painting, 1987 for US$39,900 thousand (﷼ 149,600 thousand) from source -
Empire State Building
Cost of Empire State Building when built in 1931, including cost of land for US$40,950 thousand (﷼ 153,600 thousand) from source
Thousands of
You can buy one of the following:
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Thumbs
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of thumb, 1996. for £15 thousand (﷼ 86,300) from source
Shopping list
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1 Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (﷼ 13,280 thousand) from wikipedia -
100 Houses
Average (mean) cost of a House in the United Kindgom, 2010 for £251,600 (﷼ 1,448 thousand) from source -
1 UK general election campaign
Average spending per candidate standing in the UK general election, 2010. for £3,489 (﷼ 20,070) from electoral_comission -
9 thousand Overnight stays in a Museum
Stay overnight at London's Natural History Museum. for £175 (﷼ 1,007) from nhm