surprising language oddities and food facts for trivia carousels

Here are some carousel-friendly trivia bits that hit both language oddities and food weirdness:

• “Nice” used to mean “foolish” or “ignorant,” then slowly morphed into the compliment we use today.^[20]
• “Quarantine” comes from the Italian for “40 days,” because ships suspected of carrying plague were kept waiting that long before docking.^[20][21]
• “Muscle” comes from a Latin word meaning “little mouse,” because a flexed bicep was thought to look like a mouse moving under the skin.^[20][23]
• “Odd” has a spear-related origin, tied to Old Scandinavian words for “spear point” and “spear.”^[24]

• “Plumbing” comes from Latin plumbum, meaning lead, because old pipes were often made of it.^[7][24]

• Tomatoes were once considered poisonous, and in 1893 the U.S. Supreme Court had to rule they counted as vegetables for tax purposes.^[2][9]

• Potatoes were once blamed for syphilis and leprosy, because people thought their appearance matched the diseases.^[2]
• Some of the first breakfast cereals were made to be bland on purpose, because reformers thought spicy or sugary food encouraged immoral behavior.^[2][8]
• Pistachios are not technically nuts, but drupes, which makes them fruit-seed imposters.^[4][11]
• Honey can last indefinitely, and archaeologists have found edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs.^[11][34]

If you want, I can turn these into:
1. slide-by-slide carousel copy,
2. hook + caption pairs, or
3. a 20-item series with punchier one-liners.