Farmers collect me by the millions during the autumn harvest, but honest speakers look for just a single one of me in a suspicious tale. What am I?
A grain
A grain is harvested from cereal crops in autumn, while the idiom 'a grain of truth' refers to a small bit of fact in a story.
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