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.

• Frank Lloyd Wright coined the term “carport.”
• Although Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times, he never won it!
• Barack Obama met his wife Michelle when he took a job at a law firm in Chicago—she was his boss.
• Americans use more than 2-million plastic bottles an hour … 48 million per day!
• Every month, Americans throw away enough aluminum cans to rebuild every commercial airplane in the country!
• Gene Simmons of KISS was once an elementary school teacher.
• People sitting in the first few rows of a Blue Man Group concert get plastic ponchos before the show to protect them from the mess created as the performers bank on the liquid-filled tops of drums.

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