8 Curious Items You Won’t Believe How Much They Cost

How much do you imagine a 1 liter bottle of a different type of water or a bunch of grapes from a rare harvest might cost? Have you ever thought of having a “Da Hong Pao” and paying US$685,000 for it? So keep reading this post to be guaranteed good surprises. At the end of it, you’ll discover the most expensive liquid on the planet, which you might even have at home and wouldn’t want to sell for the world.

O awesome.club lists the 8 most expensive items in the world below and explains why they cost a fortune.

Bunches of “Ruby Roman” grapes are grown and sold exclusively by the Prefecture of Ishikawa (Japan). There, an annual auction is held. These grapes undergo strict quality controls: each one must weigh more than 30 grams and the whole bunch more than 700 grams. Initially, a gram of fruit cost 26 dollars (this was in 2008), but with each season, the value increases. In 2017, these grapes sold for $9,800.

The huia became extinct at the beginning of the 20th century, but the animal’s feathers were sold for a record $10,000 in 2010. Today, in online stores in New Zealand (where the bird originates), it is possible to find ads from people interested in purchase a single unit for $1,000. However, it is very difficult to prove its authenticity. Most likely they are just fakes.

One gram of tritium is worth $30,000. It is used in the radioluminescence of various items: compasses, key chains, emergency exit signs, etc. The great advantage of radioluminescence is the fact that it provides permanent lighting, without the need for charging.

Can you imagine paying $60,000 for a 1.25 liter bottle of water? We’re probably talking about the most expensive and rarest water in the world: Acqua di Cristallo Tributo a Modigliani, taken from springs in Fiji and mixed with water resulting from melting glaciers in Iceland.

The drug Luxturna helps to restore sight to people with a hereditary form of blindness. The current price is a little lower than that projected by the researchers during the development of the substance: 425 thousand dollars to treat only one eye. Before, it was believed that the treatment would cost more than 1 million dollars. But let’s agree: seeing again is priceless, right?

“Da Hong Pao” is the most expensive tea known. The raw materials are harvested once a year from mountains in China and only the first four leaves of each branch are taken. Annual production of this legendary drink does not reach 500 grams, as a result of which its price exceeds the mark of 685 thousand dollars.

Yellow scorpion venom has been named the “most expensive liquid in the world”. The price of a gallon (3.7 liters) is 39 million dollars. A single scorpion produces less than two milligrams of venom at a time, so an arthropod would have to be “milked” over two million times. The venom has a very important substance for the treatment of brain tumors.

Californium-252 is the most expensive metal on Earth, used in radiation therapies. For the production of 1 gram of this substance, it is necessary to irradiate plutonium or curium in a nuclear reactor between 8 and 18 months. Annually, between 20 and 30 micrograms are obtained. The world reserve is only 8 grams, hence the astronomical price: 250 million dollars per gram.

No researcher needed to invest time or money to prove that cats could very well be considered “liquid”. Just observe the behavior of cats. And anyone who has a cat at home knows that these animals are the most valuable thing in the world!

Were you surprised by the values ​​of the items on our list?

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