Sleep technology has vastly improved over the past five decades. Praise the powers that be for removing the waterbed trend from the face of the earth and providing us with better mattresses for a multitude of different ailments being that we're all physically built different and have different sleeping styles. Some of us prefer to load up on pillows and hyke up our necks, some sleep with a pillow in between our legs, some of us sleep with a ton of blankets in order to maintain a decent body temperature while others run hot and can't even sleep covered by a single sheet, or with clothes on at that.
Luckily, for those of you who might get a little sweaty in your sleep causing you to wake in the middle of the night soaked in your own juices, a cooling gel memory foam pillow has been developed to ensure that you stay at a cool temperature throughout the night.
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.