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.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63826/time-william-mckinley-gave-away-his-lucky-flower-and-…
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