69 Wild, Weird Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

By Thought Catalog

52. Graham crackers were invented to be bland. The maker believe that food with flavor was responsible for lust. This, he made the cracker with the idea that it would help people by reducing the amount of sex they wanted.

Kellogg’s originally made corn flakes with the idea that it would be a substitute for food much for the same reason as Graham created his cracker.

53. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are Latin day names. Day of Saturn, Day of the Sun, Day of the Moon.

But for some reason, the weekdays are from Norse mythology. Tyr’s Day (Tuesday), Woden’s (Odin) Day (Wednesday), Thor’s Day (Thursday) and Frigga’s Day (Friday).

54. The sandwich was invented because the Earl of Sandwich wanted a dish he could eat in one hand while holding poker cards in the other.