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TIL Goldenrod flowers were considered a weed in the United States until the 1980s. They’re made of as much as 12% rubber. Thomas Edison experimented to grow a 12 foot Goldenrod. His friend Henry Ford gifted him a model T made with Goldenrod tires.

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