Facebook’s recent $19 billion dollar acquisition of the popular application “Whatsapp” has us asking: “What else could have been bought with that kind of money?” Well, here are 25 things that Facebook could buy with $19 billion instead of WhatsApp.
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Hubble Telescope at launch | $1.5 billion
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Clean water for the entire planet | $10 billion
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Large Hadron Collider | $11 Billion
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The whole TGV Fleet of SNCF (French Railways) | $4.2 billion
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The fifty most expensive paintings ever sold | $5 billion
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MMR Vacine for every child in the world
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Two Pixars | $7.4 billion X 2
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The Construction of 12 Burj Khalifa (World’s Tallest Tower) | $1.5 billion each
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Four wars combined: The American Revolution, the Spanish American War, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War. | $15.3 billion dollars. (in 2011 dollars)
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Top 50 college football programs | $15 billion
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Every Airbus A380 built in 2013 | $10 billion
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The London Olympics | $10.4 billion
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USS Ford aircraft carrier | $13 billion
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Jamaica | $15 billion
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The entire US government budget for a day | $10,460,188,800
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Driver education courses for every licensed driver in America | $17 billion
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World's music industry | $16 billion
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Iceland | $14 billion
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2014 USA National School Lunch Program budget | $9 billion
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Pay Detroit's debt | $18 billion
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42 years of public broadcasting in the United States
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All the adoption fees for all the animals in shelters in the US | $1.2 billion
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The 8.5 mile subway extension in New York City | $16 billion
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13 "Allure Of The Seas" Royal Caribbean cruise ships | $1.4 billion each
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8 Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (World's largest solar power plant) | $2.2 billion each
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