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Know life insurance? Quiz yourself on these fun facts

Allen Wastler

Posted on April 09, 2024

By:  Allen Wastler

Allen Wastler is a former financial journalist with over 30-years of experience, including time at CNBC, CNN, and Knight-Ridder Newspapers.
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1 Guinness World Records, “Mystery Billionaire takes out historic life insurance policy,” March 13, 2024. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/3/record-breaking-250-million-life-insurance-policy-sold-in-hong-kong-767651

2 Huffington Post, “How Walt Disney Funded his Dream,” Dec. 19, 2017 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-walt-disney-funded-his-dream_us_5a38ebc1e4b0578d1beb72a1

3 Life Happens/LIMRA, “2023 Insurance Barometer,” 2023.

4 NPR, “What the Apollo Astronauts Did for Life Insurance,” Aug. 30, 2012, https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/30/160267398/what-the-apollo-astronauts-did-for-life-insurance

5 Journal of the British Astronomical Association, “Edmond Halley, Scientist,” August, 1985. http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1985JBAA...95..193H&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf

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