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Did you know that the invention of one of the most famous brands of cereal was an accident?

In 1877, two brothers named John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg were experimenting with food made with boiled wheat. They left a batch out overnight and returned to find it stale. Instead of throwing it away, they rolled it out and discovered that each wheat berry formed its own flake. They baked the flakes and created the first dry breakfast cereal, which we now know as Kellogg’s Corn Flakes!