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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.

• About 10% of the world population is left-handed. 
• The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother’s womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
• The longest one-syllable words in the English language are: broughams, craunched, schlepped, scratched, scraughed, screeched, scrinched, scritched, scrooched, scrounged, scrunched, sprainged, spreathed, squelched, squirrels, straights, strengths, stretched, throughed, and thrutched.
• The last original Sunday Peanuts comic strip was published February 13, 2000. Oddly enough, creator Charles M. Schultz died the night before.
• Elvis Presley once paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.
• The longest word used by Shakespeare in any of his works is
  “honorificabilitudinitatibus,” found in “Love’s Labours Lost.”
• When Sesame Street’s Big Bird has a birthday, he always remains the same age, age 6.

Harry K. Jones is a professional, motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed keynote presentations, seminars, and consulting services. Harry has appeared all over North America addressing topics such as change, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork and time management for a number of industries, including education, financial, government, healthcare, hospitality, and manufacturing. For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

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