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Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he died in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)