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Henry Ford reportedly saved Edison's last breath

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Creepy billionaire behavior is not a modern invention. When inventor Thomas Edison was dying in 1931, his good friend Henry Ford supposedly asked Edison's son to hold a test tube next to his mouth to catch his last exhalation. Ford corked it and kept the vial as a weird, morbid souvenir. It is currently sitting in the Henry Ford Museum, doing absolutely nothing.

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