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You can buy one of the following:
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Empire State Building
Cost of Empire State Building when built in 1931, including cost of land for US$40,950 thousand ($U823,100 thousand) from source
Buy all billionaires
You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
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Events with Kelly Osbourne
Hire Kelly Osbourne for an event, 2006 for £25 thousand ($U770,800) from source -
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You can buy all of the following:
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1 Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand ($U71,170 thousand) from wikipedia -
1 Olympic swimming pool filled with untaxed petrol
Olympic swimming pool filled with untaxed petrol for £1,173 thousand ($U36,150 thousand) from hardcoded -
4 thousand Nissan Micra
Car for £7,820 ($U241,100) -
700 Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 ($U1,912) from waterstones