Things you didn’t know about the 16 most popular breakfast cereals

We tend to not give too much thought to the stories behind the breakfast cereals on our supermarket shelves; in many ways they’re timeless, and it’s hard to think of a world before they existed. But just like every other consumer product, they were invented and marketed by teams of professionals, and we bet that there’s a lot you don’t know about the top-selling brands. (This story originally appeared on The Daily Meal.)