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

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

⁴NPR, “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

⁵Journal 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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