TIL that The Apollo 11 astronauts couldn’t get life insurance before their mission, so they came up with a brilliant hack: they signed hundreds of autographs. These "insurance autographs" were given to their families, who could sell them if the mission ended in tragedy.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/30/160267398/what-the-apollo-astronauts-did-for-life-insurance
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