The Supercar Registry - You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

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Considered the most valuable truffle (and most expensive at $45,000 a pound), the “diamond of Alba ” are white truffles found in Italy’s Piedmont region.

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06-29-2019 01:10 AM

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Since only the red pistols of the saffron flower (the stigmata) are harvested, one pound of the spice requires about 75,000 flowers—which bloom a few weeks of the year. Used as everything from perfume to medical potion, saffron was first cultivated in Greece , but now 90% is grown in northeastern Iran, with retail prices reaching a staggering $10,000 per pound.

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06-29-2019 01:11 AM

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Geisha Coffee ($803 Per Pound)

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06-29-2019 01:17 AM

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Nicknamed the “Caviar of the East,” edible swiftlet nests can net up to $5,000 per pound (or $50 for one bowl of swallow saliva soup), especially for the rarer red “blood” nests. You may know them as "Bird's Nest Soup."

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06-29-2019 01:18 AM

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NASA Announces New Dragonfly Drone Mission to Explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

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06-29-2019 01:24 AM

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Competed in 1943, The Pentagon cost a total of $83 million, which equates to $1.2 billion in current US dollars.

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06-29-2019 01:25 AM

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06-29-2019 01:26 AM

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Apple Park, Cupertino, California

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06-29-2019 01:28 AM

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America's all-time most expensive building, the K-25 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee was a four-story mile-long U-shaped structure that was built by the US government in 1944 to develop the atom bomb. Interestingly, like Apple Park, the building housed 12,000 staff. The plant, which cost a staggering $7.1 billion in today's money, was demolished in 2013.

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06-29-2019 01:35 AM

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The Manhattan Project expenditure through 1 October 1945 was $1.845 billion. About $22 billion in today's money. 62% of the expenditure went to Oak Ridge

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