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House
Average (mean) cost of a House in the United Kindgom, 2010 for £251,600 ($U7,758 thousand) from source
Buy all billionaires
You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
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Events with Jodie Marsh
Hire Jodie Marsh for 3 hours, 2006. Photo: Darren171. for £3,500 ($U107,900) from source
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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 ($U36,150 thousand) from hardcoded -
1 Leg
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of leg above knee, 1996. for £40 thousand ($U1,233 thousand) from source -
1 Duck island
Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 ($U50,720) from wikipedia -
6 thousand Freedom of Information requests
Average cost of a request under the UK's Freedom of Information Act, 2010. for £159.80 ($U4,927) from source