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House
Average (mean) cost of a House in the United Kindgom, 2010 for £251,600 (L$104,200 thousand) from source
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Words by Stephen Fry
Cost per word of Stephen Fry's column for £3 (L$1,242) -
McFlurries
McDonald's Ice Cream for £1.20 (L$497)
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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 -
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 (L$777,300 thousand) from amazon -
100 questions in the UK parliament
Payments made to MPs to table parliamentary questions, 1994. for £2 thousand (L$828,300) from wikipedia -
1 Unemployment benefit
Income-based Jobseekers Allowance for under 25 year olds, UK for £53.45 (L$22,140) from source -
4 thousand 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