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August 1st, 2010
On on the site ?fifty factoids
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"It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World."

The government of Spain financed those journeys for the most part rather than Columbus himself, I think, (feel free to correct that) so that could technically be true. But I don't think that's what the creator intended here. How much did the journeys cost total in 2010 dollars? After ships, men, equipment and the like? Surely it must've come up more than $30,000ish.