I don’t want to bore you with trivia, but this is one of those stories that a famous radio guy from an earlier generation might have told.
This nugget, or should I say briquette, of fact was brought to my attention by my friend Rick in Albany (New Hampshire, of course). It involves a guy most people have heard of, Henry Ford.
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