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The weird world of insurance doesn’t stop at your bog standard health, life and car policies. No, in fact if you can think about insuring something the chances you probably can and someone’s done it already. Sit tight as we take you on a whirl round the weird world of strange insurance policies.

The first weird insurance policy is the most out of this world of the entire bunch. Alien abduction policies are proving more and more popular with London-based insurance company Goodfellow Rebecca Ingram Pearson having sold a total of 30,000 insurance packages to date. Alien abduction isn’t the only supernatural insurance policy on the market however with ghost, werewolf, vampire and even asteroid insurance all available to purchase.

Weather insurance might sound odd on paper but in fact weather insurance is the oldest kind of insurance around. Farmers’ earnings have long been tied to rain and shine but weather insurance now covers more than just farmers. Golf tournaments can insure against rain, hot air balloon companies can insure against lack of wind while film companies are big fans of weather insurance when it comes to shooting on location.

With film makers insuring against the weather, it wouldn’t be Hollywood without the A-listers getting in on the action as well. Mariah Carey is thought to have insured her legs for a gargantuan $1 billion dollars while supermodel Heidi Klum allegedly insured her catwalk perfect legs for an astonishing $2.2 million. Some quirky body part insurers include Merv Hughes – an Australian cricket player – who insured his iconic moustache for almost $400,000. The food critic Egon Ronay is also thought to have insured his taste buds for the same amount.

Planning a relaxing holiday to some of the world’s kidnap hotspots of Russia, Mexico, Columbia or Eastern Europe? You might want to take kidnap insurance with you! Kidnap and Ransom insurance is popular with wealthy people and their families should they be held hostage and a price demanded for their release. The only catch here is that the insurance company doesn’t pay for the person’s release first hand, instead they reimburse families after they have paid the kidnappers.

Finally, for anyone planning that ‘big day’, taking out wedding insurance might be a worthwhile option. With the average UK wedding costing upwards of £10,000 – excluding the honeymoon – you can protect your wedding against last minute cancellation. Couples can go further to cover individual elements of their big day such as the bride’s dress, drunken damage to the wedding reception or even poor wedding photography.

Protection against alien abduction, kidnap and drunken revellers; who would have thought that pet, travel and life insurance weren’t the only things you could insure.

Do you believe in miracles? Everyone believes in the Seven Wonders of the World. Many people don’t believe in miracles at all. Some people think that miracles have happened before, but you cannot find them anymore. Very few people pay attention to all the weird but true facts that happens every day. Actually, have you ever been thinking how many weird but true facts there are? Some of them are funny facts, some just interesting facts, but all these weird facts do sound like a miracle and something that cannot be true. What is even weirder is that they are true.

Just think about this: “The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have ever died”. This is like interesting, amazing and weird fact all in one. Do you think it is unbelievable? Well, let me surprise you it is true. Here is another one for you: “Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes”. Next one is a funny fact and it is like my favorite: “A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day”. Now I know how to figure out whether an adult is a hardworking or lazy one. Well, not really. This is just the first part of a very interesting fact. The second part actually says that: “Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there”.

Someone said: “The miracles are everywhere around us we just need to learn how to see them”. Fact Surf will help you to learn how to see the miracles. There you can find thousands and thousands funny facts and interesting facts and of course weird facts that are actually true

Vibrio…………………Here I am

Mycobacterium………Here I am

Salmonella……………Here I am

I could hear the voice of the reader saying “What on earth are these?”

Actually, the above mentioned names are of bacterial pathogens1 that infect us and invade our health. These pathogens are ubiquitous and we are exposed to them on a daily basis. How are we going to save ourselves from millions of such invisible pathogens that pose threat to our health?

The other side of the coin is that, there are lot of beneficial micro organisms that help us in our day to day activities. They also play a great role in scientific innovations like vaccines that are saving the life of millions around the world. How do these miniscule living beings play a critical role in our daily activities?

Understanding a problem is an essential prerequisite to framing the solution. How useful will it be to get well informed about these micro organisms that challenge us? Well, I found a comprehensive web guide that gives a thorough insight into the strange world of micro organisms.

Visit www.microbexpert.com, the site which features a plenty of information about micro organisms. The major types of micro organisms are micro-algae, bacteria, virus, Protozoa, and micro-fungi. This site analyses the major micro organisms under headings like types, taxonomy, research, news, and diseases caused by them.

The comprehensive A-Z list of micro organisms is presented in this site. This page consists of maximum entries of genus names of microbes with a link to an interesting web resource about these microbes. Oops….Just a minute, don’t forget to check the “Contact us” page and fill in your suggestions to improve the site.

1Pathogens – Disease causing organisms