Teddy Roosevelt’s 84-minute speech saved his life. The president survived an attempted assassination because his prepared speech (50 pages in length) was folded up and placed in his breast pocket along with his eye glass case. When the attacker shot Roosevelt in the chest, the bullet was slowed by the items in his pocket and instead of killing him, it was simply lodged in his rib. Despite being shot, Roosevelt went on to give the speech, famously saying “it takes more than that to kill a bull moose.”