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And that’s how she discovered he was cheating

09-16. Today in history – in 1908 William C. Durant, a carriage maker, founded GM in Flint. By the 70s, some GM cars had such bad paint quality, it would actually peel off in large chunks. It was so common that some owners joked their cars had “paint-stripping technology,” as if it were a high-tech feature. People said you could track a GM car’s daily commute by following the trail of paint chips.

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