Do you ever wonder about the people behind all the stuff we use in our everyday lives?

Like, sure, microwaves make our lives easier, but what if the guy who invented them was a serial killer?

And sure, Planned Parenthood provides life-saving medical care to millions each year,

but what if the woman who founded it was a horrible racist?

Spoiler alert, she was.

And yeah, the Ford F-150 is the most popular truck in America several decades running,

but what about Mr. Ford himself?

How much do we really know about that guy?

Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. I am someone who believes in voting with

my dollar, and as a result, I have a long list of companies I don't buy from. Pretty soon I'm

going to be living in a hollowed out tree in the woods, making soups and

unguents out of the mushrooms and berries I forage. I am exhausting. When my husband recently announced

that he was looking at buying a Ford truck, I winced. I had a vague idea that Henry Ford was a

pretty unctious character. Then I decided to put my research where my visceral reactions were and find out what was

really going on with that guy.

What I learned was a lot worse than what I originally thought.

Music During World War II, if our history books are to be believed, Americans everywhere were enthusiastically contributing to the war effort.

Whether it was gladly rationing their eggs and butter,

buying war bonds, or going to work at assembly plants building the tools of war,

everyone was doing their part for Uncle Sam.

Factories that had once put out automobiles were now churning out the machines of war,

few as efficiently as the Ford Company out of Detroit, Michigan. The Willow-run Ford plant located just west of war, few as efficiently as the Ford Company out of Detroit, Michigan.

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