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Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (L$956 million) from wikipedia
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Tours of the UK Parliament
Guided tour of the Houses of Parliament, London for £11.50 (L$4,763) -
Words by Stephen Fry
Cost per word of Stephen Fry's column for £3 (L$1,242)
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1 Olympic swimming pool filled with double gloucester
Olympic swimming pool filled with double gloucester for £19,310 thousand (L$7,997 million) -
1 Keith Chegwin for an event
Hire Keith Chegwin for an event, 2006 for £4,500 (L$1,864 thousand) from source -
1 Duck island
Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 (L$681,300) from wikipedia -
5 thousand Tubs of Passion Natural Water-Based Lubricant
55 gallons of lube for US$1,495 (L$403,700) from source -
2 thousand Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 (L$25,680) from waterstones