The series of 5 comes in different colours, and the orange version was sold for $58.4 million on November 13th, 2013.

Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet

Sold for $33.7 million on June 5th, 2013.

The Bay Psalm Book

Sold for $14.1 million in November 2013.

October on Cape Cod

The painting by Edward Hopper sold for $9.6 million in November 2012.

1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild

50 cases of this wine was sold sold for $1.1 million November 2006.

Bronze Egyptian Cat

A bronze cat sculpture made in Egypt sold for $2 million in June 2013.

The Codex Leicester

Sold to Bill Gates for $30.8 million in November of 1994.

Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1945

The bottle of wine was sold for $310,700 in February 2007.

Rhein II

There was a photograph of a small body of water taken by Andreas Gursky and sold for $4.8 million in November 2011.

Fauteuil aux dragons

A leather bound wooden chair similar to this one was sold at auction for $28 million in February 2009.

1856 one cent stamp from British Guiana

Sold for $9.5 million on June 17th, 2014.

Huanghuali table

A table made of huanghuali sold for $9 million in March 2013.

Case of 1978 Romanee-Conti

A case of this was sold for $476,000 in November 2013.

Cycladic Marble Figure

A marble figure carved around 2400 B.C. sold for $16 million in December 2010.

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The stings were ranked on a four-point scale. The honey bee was used as a reference point with a rating of 2 on the scale. Half points were used and to go up or down on the scale the sting had to be discernibly more or less painful than stings on another level.

Some of the stings are below, with their pain level and a short description of the sting.

Red Fire Ant
Pain level: 1
“Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet and reaching for the light switch.”

Western Cicada Killer
Pain level: 1.5
“Pain at first sight. Like poison oak, the more your rub, the worse it gets.”

Western Honey Bee
Pain level: 2
“Burning, corrosive, but you can handle it.”

Western Yellowjacket
Pain level: 2
“Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W.C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.”

Fierce Black Polybia Wasp
Pain level: 2.5
“A ritual gone wrong, satanic. The gas lamp in the old church explodes in your face when you light it.”

Velvet Ant
Pain level: 3
“Explosive and long-lasting, you sound insane as you scream. Hot oil from the deep frying spilling over your entire hand.”

Florida Harvester Ant
Pain level: 3
“Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a power drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.”

Tarantula Hawk
Pain level: 4
“Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair dryer has just been dropped into your bubble bath.”

Bullet Ant
Pain level: 4
“Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like walking over a flaming charcoal with a 3-inch nail embedded in your heel.”

Warrior Wasp
Pain level: 4
“Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?”

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Cost to Setup: $5.1 billion
Net Loss: -$3.2 billion

Cost to Setup: $6.7 billion
Net Loss: -$2.9 billion

Cost to Setup: $7.1 billion
Net Loss: -$515.4 million, though total debt might be more. This just accounts for debt from the Olympic Village alone.

Cost to Setup: $1.4 million
Net Loss: -$97.6 million

Cost to Setup: $3.6 billion
Net Loss: -$38.7 million

Cost to Setup: $494.4 million
Net Loss: -$24.7 million

Cost to Setup: $11.5 billion
Net Loss: Debt is unknown, but it is speculated that the number is quite high and has contributed to the historic debt Greece now faces.

Cost to Setup: $12 billion, estimated
Net Profit/Loss: Only time will tell…

Cost to Setup: $16.2 billion
Net Profit: $8.6 million

Cost to Setup: $2.6 billion
Net Profit: $15.4 million

Cost to Setup: $348 million
Net Profit: $23.2 million

Cost to Setup: $51.9 billion
Net Profit: $54.1 million

Cost to Setup: $1.8 billion
Net Profit: $65.1 million

Cost to Setup: $15.3 billion
Net Profit: $91.3 million

Cost to Setup: $1.7 billion
Net profit: $134 million

Cost to Setup: $47 billion
Net Profit: $190.3 million

Cost to Setup: $958 million
Net Profit: $517.3 million

Cost to Setup: $8.2 billion
Net Profit: $1 billion

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This 42-lettered monstrosity is just a long scientific name for a species of fly in Thailand.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Sir… I don’t quite know how to say this…but you have Pneumon..oultramicroscopicsili..covolcanoconiosis? It’s a type of lung disease.

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

This is a condition associated with the resistance to the parathyroid hormone

Floccinaucinihilipilification

This is a word used to describe the estimation of something as “valueless.”

Antidisestablishmentarianism

This word is used to describe any opposition that is looking to withdraw government support from a church.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Mary Poppins says that it’s a word you can use when you simply have nothing to say. It’s even in the Oxford Dictionary!

Strengths

I know what you’re thinking, this ain’t even a long word motha-licka. However, “strengths’ is one of the longest monosyllabic words in the English language.

Euouae

At 6 letters long, Euouae is the longest word in English that consists of only vowels. It was used as as a musical term in the Middle Ages.

Antitransubstantiationalist

This is a fancy word to describe someone who doubts that the host and wine don’t actually turn into the body and blood of Christ.

Methionylthreonylthreonylthreonyg….

I apologize for not typing out the entire word here, but it’s 189,819 letters long. It is the full chemical name for the human protein, Titin.

Subdermatoglyphic

This word holds the title for the longest isogram: a word in which no letters are repeated. What does it mean? Well it is used to described the underlying dermal matrix that determines the crazy shapes in our finger prints.

Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies

This is the longest word in Gould’s Medical Dictionary. It’s used to describe “the surgical creation of a of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.”

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian

This word means “pertaining to a very long word.” As in: this post is filled with Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalians!

Honorificabilitudinitatibus

This is an Old English word that describes the state of being able to achieve honours.

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Fields and forests all around rural Victoria are full of these frost-like spider webs.

The ‘frost’ is actually the result of a mass migration by baby spiders. *Grabs flamethrower*

Many species of young spiders use a technique known as ballooning to hitch a ride on the wind to find a place to live.

Some spiders have been caught by researchers ballooning as high as 1.5 miles up. They can travel for miles like this, which is a real phe-nope-enon.

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What. Is. Going. On.

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