LIFE AFTER DEATH
The creator of the Pringles can is buried in one. The ashes of Fredric Baur, who created the iconic Pringles can in 1966, found his eternal resting place in one when he died in 2008. And FYI, his remains are in an original flavor can.
Speaking of remains, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, kept her dead husband’s heart in her writing desk! Apparently, a rare condition meant his heart remained unburnt after his cremation, and rather than bury it, Mary Shelley decided to keep it in a drawer.
PAINT JOB POETRY
Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel and wrote a poem about it. “My stomach’s squashed under my chin, my beard’s pointing at heaven, my brain’s crushed in a casket, my breast…
