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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 (₡349 million) from source
Buy all billionaires
You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
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Lunches with Sir Roger Moore and Terry Wogan
Charity Auction for Children In Need. Photo: Allan Warren. for £75 thousand (₡1,006 thousand) from source
Shopping list
You can buy all of the following:
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1 Empire State Building
Cost of Empire State Building when built in 1931, including cost of land for US$40,950 thousand (₡358,200 thousand) from source -
1 Olympic swimming pool filled with untaxed petrol
Olympic swimming pool filled with untaxed petrol for £1,173 thousand (₡15,730 thousand) from hardcoded -
1 UK general election campaign
Average spending per candidate standing in the UK general election, 2010. for £3,489 (₡46,820) from electoral_comission -
4 thousand Freedom of Information requests
Average cost of a request under the UK's Freedom of Information Act, 2010. for £159.80 (₡2,144) from source