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...biggest, smallest, most expensive, from the weird to the wonderful and everywhere in between. This issue you can sip on a vintage tipple while reading a message in a bottle on a beautiful island in the sun
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The Nicole Kidman-starring Chanel No. 5 advert cost around $60m to make - $5m of which was NicoleÕ s fee for her four days shooting.
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The record belongs to a lonesome bottle which spent 92 years and 229 days at sea. The bottle was released on 25 April 1914 and recovered by fisherman, Mark Anderson in the Shetlands on December 10, 2006.
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OLDEST MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
The International Space Station comes crunching in at the top of the list of expensive Ô stuffÕ . Costing $100bn, the station has been funded by 16 countries and is visible by 90% of the worldÕ s population.
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FIRST BILLIONAIRE
RembrandtÕ s Jacob III de Gheyn has earned the monicker Ò Takeaway RembrandtÓ after being stolen four times in 35 years. It belongs to the Dulwich Picture Gallery and has been returned anonymously each time it has disappeared.
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The oldest single-malt in the world has easily got its free bus pass at the ripe old age of 70. Mortlack whiskey has been aging in Spanish oak since 1938 and is limited to 54 regular sized bottles or 162 smaller ones.
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In 1916, John D. RockefellerÕ s net worth officially tipped over the billion dollar mark making him the worldÕ s first billionaire. Staggeringly, at the time of his death, if his fortune were adjusted for the size of the economy, he would have been worth over 200 billion USD.
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Vanquis Bank in the UK offer a card with a £150 limit and a 69.5% annual interest rate. Now, the maths - if you spend the maximum £150 and pay only the minimum 5% monthly payment add on the £19 annual fee, it would take you just 13 years to pay off the debt.
The island of Vatu Vara is up for sale. The two-mile wide island in Fiji is part of the Lau group of islands and its peak is the most prominent of them all. If youÕ re in the mood itÕ s yours to buy for just $40m.
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