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You can buy one of the following:
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Enough 1p coins to cover an American football field
Cover an American football field with a single layer of UK one penny coins in hexagonal close-pack formation for £37,430 (£S5,583 thousand)
Buy all billionaires
You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
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Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 (£S9,249) from waterstones
Shopping list
You can buy all of the following:
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1 Lunch with Sir Roger Moore and Terry Wogan
Charity Auction for Children In Need. Photo: Allan Warren. for £75 thousand (£S11,190 thousand) from source -
1 Nissan Micra
Car for £7,820 (£S1,167 thousand) -
1 One cube of butter one meter in size
One cube of butter one meter in size for £4,722 (£S704,400) -
1 Duck island
Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 (£S245,400) from wikipedia -
8 thousand Cups of instant coffee
Cost per cup of instant coffee for £0.05 (£S6.86)