In Popular Culture
- In art, 1000 paintings has been a popular internet art project by Swiss artist Sala
- A grand is a slang term in English for one thousand units of a given currency. Several grand can be shortened to G's
- Especially in the United States, the gambling community often refers to denominations of $1000 as dimes
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- According to an ancient Japanese legend, anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane (From Wikipedia article Thousand origami cranes)
- The video game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- The video game Star Wars 1313
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