Same post as last year, only now with a new picture!
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
So what's so special about the four-leaf clover, the mutated form of the typical three-leaf shamrock? For one, it's rare: For every 10,000 three-leaf clovers, you'll find only one four-leafer.But there are some numbers that kind of diminish the four-leaf clover's specialness. The Chicago Tribune reported a couple years ago on an Alaskan man who has collected 160,000 four-leaf clovers. And it appears there's not much threat of the record being broken. His closest competitor (he had 70,000) was also a convicted prisoner and therefore limited to the prison yard. That the clover-collecting convict has since died only reinforces the Alaskan's record.
And while it's rare to find a four-leaf clover, it's even more so to find a five-, six- or a seven leaf clover. indeed, a famer in Japan possesses the two highest-leaf clovers ever found - an 18-leaf clover and a 21-leaf clover.
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