Go Forth and Multiply
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The Most Expensive Book Ever
The making of a fly. The genetics of animal design was listed on Amazon for over $23 million. It should have retailed for around 100 US dollars, which is still not so bad. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley do a lot of research on fruit flies and they needed another copy to use in their lab. They just fired up Amazon, found a second hand copy and realized it was listed for over 1.7 million dollars. And then they're like, no, wait, wait,Wait. There's two copies. And the other ones listed for 2.198 million dollars. So if I had called you, you would have you would have been able to help me
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