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"Facebook filed for initial public offering today, and simultaneously announced that it is planning to raise $5 billion, a more conservative number than initially estimated. According market analyst estimates, however, Facebook's total value has reached a staggering $100 billion. \nThat means if Facebook were to go on sale tomorrow (unlikely), the asking price would probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion. When we heard that number, our imaginations started to wander. \nWhat else in the world is worth that many billions of dollars?  Well, we found 10 things Facebook could technically afford, were it to sell at that price. Think Facebook is in the market for naval submarines or all the coffee in the world?\n\nSEE ALSO: Apple Is Worth More than All the Tea in China; What Else Does It Beat?\nCan you think of anything else Facebook is worth more than? Can you even wrap your head around this kind of money? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.\n\n\n10 Giant Things Less Valuable Than Facebook\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. The Economy of Qatar\n\nThe country of Qatar's GDP adds up to about $98 billion.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, thinkingjosh\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. 6.3 Months Worth of Fast Food in the U.S.\n\nAccording to a survey by Mint, Americans spend an average of $51.79 on fast food per month. Multiply that by the population (307,006,550) and you discover that Americans spend $15,899,869,225 per month on fast food. Multiply that by 6.25 months and you reach $99,374,182,653.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Like_the_Grand_Canyon\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. The Cost of Breast Cancer Treatment for 6 Years\n\nBreast cancer costs the U.S. $16.5 billion per year. Multiply that number by six years and you reach $99 billion.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Jason Pier in DC\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. 120 Eiffel Towers\n\nNational Geographic's TV show Pricing the Priceless estimates that rebuilding the Eiffel Tower today would cost $480 million plus the cost of land, another $350 million. Therefore, you'd be able to build 120 Eiffel Towers for $99.6 billion.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Stuck in Customs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Brazil's 2011 Travel and Tourism Budget\n\nBrazil's travel and tourism budget for 2011 was about R$129.6 billion (Brazilian reals), which factors to $74.2 billion U.S. dollars.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Rodrigo_Soldon\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. The World's Entire Coffee Industry\n\nThe global coffee industry is estimated to be worth $100 billion.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, dongga BS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. 2.5 Olympic Games\n\nOne of the most expensive Olympics in history, the Beijing games cost $40 billion. For $100 billion, you could throw 2.5 Olympics games at that cost.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, \u56E7-Jean-\u56E7\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. The Entire Cleanup of Hurricane Katrina -- And Then Some\n\nHurricane Katrina cost $81 billion in damages. Not to mention, the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan cost $100 billion.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Tidewater Muse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. The Gulf War\n\nAt $96 billion, the cost of the entire Gulf War comes in under Facebook's valuation.\nImage courtesy of Wikimedia Commons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. 50 Naval Submarines\n\nU.S. Navy submarines cost an estimated $2 billion each to build.\nImage courtesy of Wikimedia Commons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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