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TIL that President William McKinley always wore a red carnation for good luck but sometimes gave it out as a memento. When greeting the crowd in 1901, he handed a 12-year-old girl, Myrtle, his the bloom off his lapel. Minutes later, he was fatally shot by a man in the crowd.

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