The roots of insurance can be traced to Babylonia, where traders were encouraged to assume the risks of the caravan trade through loans that were repaid (with interest) only after the goods had arrived safely
Did you know?
A football fan in England took out a £1,000,000 insurance policy if England were knocked out of the World Cup early and he suffered trauma.
Ken’s Five Rules of Good Investment
Rule 1 : Understand your risk profile
Rule 2 : Diversify
Rule 3 : Plan wisely - get good advice
Rule 4 : Don’t buy junk
Rule 5 : Utilise dollar cost averaging
- An average beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year
- An average pig squeals at a range from 100 to 115 decibels
- Average length of a coat hanger when straightened: 44 inches.
- On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000
- On average, 42,000 balls are used at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
- On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left-handed counterparts.
- The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
- The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime..
- Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
- The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
- The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words
- The average snail moves at a rate of approximately 0.000362005 miles per hour.
- "The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.” - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
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