image via weburbanist On January 24, 1935, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company of New Jersey sold the first can of beer in the world. Live Science writes that “The experiment took off and American drinkers haven’t looked back since, nowadays choosing cans over bottles

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Happy Birthday Canned Beer: 75 Years of Waste and Lousy Beer