There's a lot going on in this picture. We have a dingo eating the beached torso of a shark, whilst apparently watching two snakes mating. Is the dingo a voyeur? Did seeing a shark being eaten put the snakes in the mood for some romance? What were the chances of going out for a walk and actually stumbling across this scene?
Actually, the chances were close to zero. There's some photographic trickery going on here; two different pictures have been merged together and entered into a competition to find a photo that sums up Australia. That doesn't take away from the fact that in the Land Down Under, sharks wash up on beaches and get eaten by dingoes, though, and we think that's pretty remarkable in its own right! As for the snakes; they're just having a good time. Leave them to it!
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.