The inventor of the Pringles can was buried inside one.

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Fredric J. Baur (1918–2008), an organic chemist and food storage packaging engineer for Procter & Gamble, patented the saddle-shaped hyperbolic paraboloid chip geometry and cylindrical vacuum-sealed canister in 1966. Baur was so proud of his revolutionary structural packaging invention—which prevented potato chips from breaking during transport—that he requested his family bury a portion of his cremated remains inside a Pringles can. Upon his death at age 89, his children interred his ashes in an Original flavor can at Arlington Memorial Gardens in Ohio.

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