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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 ($U1,154 thousand)
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Lemon Tart
Duchy Originals organic classic lemon tart for £3.99 ($U123) -
Words by Stephen Fry
Cost per word of Stephen Fry's column for £3 ($U92.50)
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1 Duck island
Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 ($U50,720) from wikipedia -
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600 Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 ($U1,912) from waterstones -
1 Carl Sagan's Cosmos DVD
Inspirational and wide-appeal science series. Thirteen episodes, each one hour long. for £11.71 ($U361) from source