did-you-kno:

In 1912, Teddy Roosevelt was shot just
before giving a speech. He began with:
“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet
as possible. I don’t know whether you
fully understand that I have just been
shot; but it takes more than that to kill
a Bull Moose. Fortunately I had my
manuscript – I was going to make a long
speech – and there is where the bullet
went through, and it probably saved me
from it going into my heart. The bullet is
in me now, so that I cannot make a very
long speech, but I will try my best…” then
kept talking for 1.5 hours before finally
agreeing to seek medical attention.
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