15 Bizarre Cereal Facts That Stay Crunchy, Even in Milk

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15 Bizarre Cereal Facts That Stay Crunchy, Even in Milk
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From eggs and bacon to pancakes and waffles, **ne of these morning staples stand up against the all-American champion breakfast food: sweet, crunchy cereal

Fruity, puffy, crispy, flakey — we'll eat the simple snack all with reckless abandon

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We dove into the giant bowl of cereal history to pull up 15 bit-sized facts about this crunchy breakfast staple

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1. Corn Flakes were invented to discourage masturbation (http://mentalfloss.com/article/32042/corn-flakes-were-invented-part-anti-masturbation-crusade).

In 1894, Michigan-based physician Dr. John Harvey Kellogg invented the classic cereal while developing a dietary plan for his patients at the Black Creek Sanitarium. Kellogg believed spicy foods increased ***ual desire, and prescribed his patients a diet of bland foods to curb it Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/05/cereal-facts/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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