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Chemist Fredric Baur, whose Invention was the iconic Pringles tube Packaging, asked that his ashes be buried in a Pringles can. When he died in 2008, his family stopped at a drugstore on the way to the funeral to buy an original-flavor can and placed his remains inside.
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