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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.

• Ants do not sleep.
• A placebo given to test subjects to relieve pain works 85% of the time if they’re told the medication costs $2.50 a pill but only 61% of the time when told it costs just 10 cents.
• A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only 4 miles per hour. Fish, in contrast, have been clocked at 68 mph.
• Before lifting the ban on flick lighters in August of 2007, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confiscated an average of 22,000 of them a day! That’s 154,000 per week!
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• In every episode of “Seinfeld,” there is a Superman somewhere.
• In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of real milk.

Harry K. Jones is a professional 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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