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krispos42

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4. This is how insane the amount of money is

Reply to Initech (Original post)

Thu May 22, 2014, 08:29 PM

May 2014

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By weight, the single most valuable thing that's been bought and sold on an open market is probably the Treskilling Yellow postage stamp. There's only one known copy of it, and in 2010 it sold for $2,300,000. That works out to about $30 billion per kilogram of stamps. If the Earth's weight were entirely postage stamps, it would still not be enough to pay off Au Bon Pain's potential debt.

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