24 Karat facts
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When the Cards Against Humanity team kept all of the money they raised by selling nothing (literally) for 5 Dollars on Black Friday, they split the $71,145 and one employee bought a 24 karat gold vibrator for over $3,000.
Kit-Kat made an edible 24-karat gold leaf–enrobed Kit Kat bar flavoured with rare Feng Huang Dan Cong Oolong tea and sold wrapped in silk. $88 bucks.
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There's a building in Toronto that has its windows coated with 24 karat gold leaf, worth over $1,000,000.
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Carat is used to measure mass of gemstones (1ct = 0.2g), while karat is a US based measure for the purity of gold (24 karat = 99.95–100% purity). This all not to be confused with carrot, which is just still a vegetable.
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The Swedish company LELO currently holds the record for the most expensive vibrator in the world: a 24-karat gold plated vibrator that costs $15,000.
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All except 3 DeLorean sportscars (featured in Back to the Future & Macklemore music videos) left the factory uncovered by paint or clearcoat due to the use of stainless steel in the body. The 3 exceptions were plated in 24-karat gold and only 1 of the gold cars is in private ownership today.
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24-karat gold iPads were provided to all guests at one of the world's most luxurious hotels, in Dubai
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The most expensive caviar in the world is harvested from albino sturgeon at least 100 years old, costs $25,000 per kilo, and is sold in a 24-karat tin.
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Due to a metal shortage during World War II, the Oscar statuettes given to winners at the Academy Awards were made of painted plaster. Following the war, the Academy invited recipients to redeem the plaster figures for 24-karat gold-plated metal ones.
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It is possible to buy a pizza made with 24 karat gold in New York City
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Mythbuster's Adam Savage claims to own the only 24 karat gold plated C-3PO replica in existence
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There is such thing a $2,590 24-karat gold butt plug.
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In 2005, artist Tobias Wong designed 24-karat gold-leaf capsules To Make You Poop Glitter.
Donald Trump has a 100,000,000$ private jet. The plane features 24 karat gold parts throughout the whole plane, a bedroom and small "home theaters". - source
