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xDW1 TIL In the 1920’s Kingsford Charcoal was started by Henry Ford because he hated watching wood scraps from his assembly lines go to waste.
0bPy TIL: WHen Ford was first creating the Model T’s, a lot of the car was made out of wood. With so much wood scrap, Ford discovered a use for all the waste wood: Charcoal briquettes. Eventually, Ford Charcoal was renamed after a relative of his: Kingsford.