Things to talk about at the crossroads

I picked up a trivia card game of sorts, which is like a heaven of information to me. So I'll share some fun ones.

The Food We Love
- An acid in spinach and rhubarb builds kidney stones.
- Carotene, the chemical that gives colour to carrots, can cause jaundice.
- Kidney beans can be toxic if cooked improperly.
- Lima beans have cyanide in them.
- Fortune cookies, egg foo young, chow mein, and chop suey are all American inventions.

Money Spreads Trivia Around
- The Newspaper Association of America named K-Mart its "Retailer of the Year" one day before the company filed for bankruptcy protection.
- A New York City coffee shop charged rescue workers from Ground Zero $130 for three cases of water.
- At the conclusion of a co-sponsored contest, AOL and Coca-Cola inadvertently informed more than 100 people that they had won the grand prize of $10,000.

Scary.
- The creators of Kellogg's Corn Flakes intended the cereal to be a sexual repressor.
- When you convert the initials NYC into the Wingdings font using Microsoft Word, you get a skull and crossbones, the Star of David, and a thumbs-up symbol.