King Vitaman helped invent the 8-Track

Neatorama has the history of sugared cereals. I don't know why; it's not as if anyone uncovered some secret archives that detail the plot to cover everything you have before noon with a glaze of sweetness. But it does veer into the early days of dextrose-drenched morning foods, including Post's version of sugared Corn Flakes, Corn-Fetti. At first it terrified rival Kellogg. But then:

Ah, mouth-shredding cereal. I remember that:

But here's a tale. Take a look at that fellow on the box; try not to think about the spoons on his crown. Who was he? George Mann. What did he do earlier in life? This.

He was half of "Barto and Mann," a vaudeville duo. The rode the genre to its conclusion, did a stint in "Hellzapoppin," then broke up. Barto had a daughter: Nancy Walker, aka Rhoda's Mother, also Rosie in the Bounty Towel ads. Mann went on to tinker:

But he didn't just do 3D; he also toured the town with a sackful of Kodachrome. According to the Los Angeles Visionaries Association:

Took a while, but eventually the pages lead to the George Mann Archive. and a site devoted to keeping the memory of a bygone neighborhood alive. Why should anyone care about a neighborhood in Los Angeles razed decades ago? No reason - but if you like old movies, Bunker Hill was the backdrop for just about every crime tale told in the 40s and 50s.

King Vitaman died in 1977. Here he was in 1972.

By the way, what's the difference between a "collector" and someone who shows up on "Hoarders"? Organization.

IN RUSSIA, BUS DRIVES YOU That doesn't realy make sense, but the Yakov Smirnoff construction is obligatory when the subject is Russia. Meet the Punisher: a bus driver who deals with Russia's innumerable bad drivers by driving them into curbs or other immovable objects.

By the way, Smirnoff's real name was Pokhis, and he was born in Ukraine. He is also a painter:

SCIENCE! Speaking of misleading headlines: "Astrobiologists discover fossils in meteorite fragments, confirming extraterrestrial life." That would seem to be news, no?

Yes. But no. Slate takes apart the case of the Space Diatoms.