Okay, so maybe the future isn't for you, but you're still interested in exploring a career change. Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine. Thomas Crapper invented the flush toilet. Ronald Reagan was originally cast for Bogie's part in Casablanca. Star Trek's theme music has lyrics.
Many birds have wild rice in their diets.
The real reason you shouldn't throw rice at weddings is that it makes the steps and floor slippery. Drunken Unsteady guests may trip and fall. By 1929, Coke was coke-less. Actually, a gentleman named Adamson took out the original patents. Thomas Crapper ran a Victorian plumbing supply business.