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Today's weird fact ...

Corn Flakes were invented to stop masturbation. From the Wikipedia entry on John Harvey Kellogg: "... Corn Flakes were invented as part of his health regimen to prevent masturbation. His belief was that bland foods, such as these, would decrease or prevent excitement and arousal. Kellogg was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006."

He was also apparently a brilliant surgeon.

Such a fine line between genius and stupid ...

Separately, Sanitarium food company in Australia and New Zealand pay no company tax on their profits, because of their ownership by the Seventh-Day Adventist religious organisation.

Just saw all this in a story about a row over Weetabix and Weet-bix trade names, thought it was interesting ...