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Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand ($U71,170 thousand) from wikipedia
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Tours of the UK Parliament
Guided tour of the Houses of Parliament, London for £11.50 ($U354.60) -
Carl Sagan's Cosmos DVDs
Inspirational and wide-appeal science series. Thirteen episodes, each one hour long. for £11.71 ($U361) from source
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1 Thumb
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of thumb, 1996. for £15 thousand ($U462,500) from source -
1 One cube of butter one meter in size
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9 thousand Hours of magistates court
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1 Housing benefit
Average (mean) weekly housing benefit claim in the UK, July 2011 for £87.18 ($U2,688) from source -
1 thousand Words by Stephen Fry
Cost per word of Stephen Fry's column for £3 ($U92.50)