TIL after hearing Kennedy's "end of the decade" speech, an Englishman made a wager with a bookmaker of 10 pounds at 1000/1 "that a man will set foot on the surface of the moon before the first of January 1970." He thought it was "a common sense bet."

http://www.lep.co.uk/news/local/1-000-1-moon-landing-bet-success-1-95408