In the spirit of C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement), here are this week’s new facts—one for each day of your coming week. Pass them on to others to keep the spirit alive or invite your friends and family to visit our blog where they can also view previous entries.

• A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion mathematical calculations.
• Charles Dickens’s original phrase for Scrooge was “Bah Christmas,” not “Bah Humbug.”
• In the early 15th century, Chinese scholars compiled an 11,095-volume encylopedia.
• Most arguments in the home take place in the kitchen.
• There are 284 bathrooms in the Pentagon.
• The French Poodle isn’t French and the Great Dane isn’t Danish. They’re both from Germany.
• There are exactly 216 noodles in every can of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup.

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