A hint: It rhymes with derange

•A lawyer in Kansas was once awarded $35,000 in workers’ compensation benefits. Most people don’t think of the practice of law as a particularly dangerous occupation, so I wouldn’t blame you for wondering why this attorney required workers’ comp. Here’s the scoop: He claimed that he injured his shoulder while reaching into the backseat of his car to get his briefcase.

•Add to the list of ill-conceived newspaper headlines: “Panda mating fails; veterinarian takes over.”

•It was, of course, Ambrose Bierce, in his “Devil’s Dictionary,” who defined “compromise” as “such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.”

•What’s in a name? Consider this odd coincidence: Every queen named Jane has either been locked up, gone mad, been murdered, been dethroned or died young.

•Do you like cashews? If so, you might be surprised that they are in the same plant family as poison ivy. That’s why the nuts aren’t typically sold in the shell — the oil contained therein can cause blisters, and when they’re roasted, the shells give off noxious fumes.

•The only official Hindu holy place outside India is in a surprising location: the Appalachian Mountains. Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold, near Wheeling, W.Va., was called by The New York Times “America’s Taj Mahal.” The Palace of Gold is a destination for tourists as well as spiritual pilgrims. Visitors can tour the palace and the gardens, getting a good look at the crystal ceiling of the 30-ton main dome, stained-glass windows, inlaid marble floors and walls, hand-carved teakwood furniture imported from India and, of course, the 22-karat gold that seems to virtually cover the buildings.