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The first tow truck was invented by a sibling. Pettiness is the mother of invention.

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The tow truck was invented by Ernest Holmes Sr. in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1916, reportedly after he had to recover a car from a creek. A sibling's pettiness was not involved.

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