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You can buy one of the following:
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Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand ($U71,170 thousand) from wikipedia
Buy each rat in New York city
You can buy each rat one of the following items:
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Carl Sagan's Cosmos DVDs
Inspirational and wide-appeal science series. Thirteen episodes, each one hour long. for £11.71 ($U361) from source
Shopping list
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1 Leg
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of leg above knee, 1996. for £40 thousand ($U1,233 thousand) from source -
1 Olympic swimming pool filled with tap water
Olympic swimming pool filled with tap water for £3,359 ($U103,600) from hardcoded -
2 thousand duck islands
Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 ($U50,720) from wikipedia -
1 Monthly rent
Average monthly cost of renting accomidation in the United Kingdom, 2006/7 for £565 ($U17,420) from source -