TIL that US President William McKinley might have survived being shot if he hadn't been a ham. "With McKinley in a weakened condition, Mann could do little probing of the wound to try to find the bullet; his work was complicated by the fact that the President was obese. ". Interestingly enough, he was replaced by Teddy Roosevelt, who was also a ham.  And while we're at it, here's some other stuff about ham presidents. (Hamidents?) 