FYI, you can tell Markdown what language your preformatted section is in so that it does syntax highlighting correctly -- or in the case of plaintext, not at all. Just put 'text' after the initial three backticks, like this:
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Grass does make flowers; they’re just typically really small (unless it’s something we’ve bred to be big, like corn or wheat).
For example, bermudagrass in flower: