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TIL Henry Ford once refused to pay $10,000 to General Electric for fixing a generator problem and asked for an itemized bill. The engineer from the job, Charles Steinmetz, sent this: “Making chalk mark on generator, $1. Knowing where to make mark, $9,999.” Ford ended up paying the bill.

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