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The World's Most Interesting Man...

...is not featured in any beer ads. It's not Robert Norman Smith.

It may be Theodore Roosevelt. He wrote a definitive text on naval warfare while he was in university. He had about ten jobs. He was a first-class performer in about five or six more fields than should properly be possible. And he not only survived an assassination attempt, he correctly diagnosed that the open gunshot wound was not grave, and proceeded to give his scheduled speech before seeking medical attention.

Here's to Theodore Roosevelt, who did not do things by half-measures.