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Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (L$956 million) from wikipedia
Buy each rat in New York city
You can buy each rat one of the following items:
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Tours of the UK Parliament
Guided tour of the Houses of Parliament, London for £11.50 (L$4,763) -
Carl Sagan's Cosmos DVDs
Inspirational and wide-appeal science series. Thirteen episodes, each one hour long. for £11.71 (L$4,850) from source
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1 Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (L$956 million) from wikipedia -
100 Nissan Micra
Car for £7,820 (L$3,239 thousand) -
100 duck islands
Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 (L$681,300) from wikipedia -
900 Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 (L$25,680) from waterstones -
1 Unemployment benefit
Income-based Jobseekers Allowance for under 25 year olds, UK for £53.45 (L$22,140) from source