NATIONWIDE— Grab your bowl, spoon and milk -- it's National Cereal Day!

According to the website www.nationalcerealday.com, breakfast cereal was founded in the mid 1800s and was considered a type of remedy for what ailed you.

Other cereal facts include:

• Forty-nine percent of people in the U.S. start their day with a bowl of cereal.
• There are 2.7 billion boxes of cereal sold every year -- enough to wrap around the Earth 13 times.
• Cap’n Crunch’s full name is "Horatio Magellan Crunch." He was born on Crunch Island in the Sea of Milk. 
• The city of Battle Creek, Michigan is known as the “Cereal Capital of the World.”