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.

• Unlike other fruits, cranberries do not show their ripeness with color. Instead they are sorted by bouncing: good cranberries bounce and bad ones don’t.
• Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham after his editor challenged him to produce a book using fewer than 50 different words.
• Bookworms are actually beetles. They proliferate in libraries, where dust, dirt, heat, darkness, and poor ventilation are prevalent. The mature female lays her eggs on the edges of books or in the crevices of bookshelves, and when hatched the larvae burrow into the books.
• Members of the U.S. Congress are the world’s highest paid legislators. Duh?
• William McKinley was the first president to ride in an electric car—the ambulance that took him to the hospital after he was shot by an assassin.
• Chinese recreational innovations: chess, fireworks, fishing pole and hook, hot air balloon, kite and parachute!
• Monkeys don’t have feet. Since they have opposable thumbs instead of big toes, they are classified as being four-handed.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

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.

• In the 174 minutes of an average football telecast, viewers see about 60 minutes of commercials, 75 minutes of players huddling or milling about between snaps, 17 minutes of replays—and just 11 minutes of actual football.
• British department store chain Debenhams launched a gift registry for couples that are getting divorced, so that family and friends can help them “begin their new life.”
• The vast majority of 12-17 year olds (88%) use social networks every day, with 70% spending more than an hour a day on such sites.
• The cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of eleven: $16,400.
• The U.S. federal government is now spending $2 for every dollar it takes in.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades – King David; Hearts – Charlemagne; Clubs – Alexander the Great; Diamonds – Julius Caesar.
• The ingredient believed to give clay its unique smell is vanilla.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

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.

• 15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second!
• The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever home run and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever home run were thrown by the same man!
• Exposure to noise at night can suppress immune function even if the sleeper doesn’t wake. Unfamiliar noise, and noise during the first and last two hours of sleep, has the greatest disruptive effect on the sleep cycle.
• The “natural alarm clock” which enables some people to wake up more or less when they want to is caused by a burst of the stress hormone adrenocorticotropin. Researchers say this reflects an unconscious anticipation of the stress of waking up.
• Men commit suicide three times more frequently than women do. But women attempt suicide two to three times more often than men.
• Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal-sized children, even if both parents are midgets or dwarfs.
• Tickets for the first Super Bowl, in 1967, were $12 each, and the game at the Los Angeles Coliseum did not sell out. Super Bowl tickets this year were being auctioned online at a starting price of $2,700.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

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.

• Our hearing is less sharp after eating too much.
• Americans eat approximately 20 billion pickles every year!
• There are 556 officially recognized Native American tribes.
• Women invented the windshield wiper, laser printer, cotton gin, underwater telescope, jockstrap, cordless phone, space suit, chocolate chip cookie, circular saw, crash helmet, hot-water heater, lift raft, and rotary engine!
• The state flag of Alaska was designed by a 13-year-old boy!
• By lying on your back and slowly raising your legs, you can’t sink in quicksand.
• We use 54 muscles every time we step forward.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

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.

• Most common school colors in America: blue and white.
• A bottle of champagne has three times as much air pressure as a car tire.
• 82% of the Beatles music was about love!
• The color red has been found to promote the hunger reflex in humans. This is why so many fast food establishments use the color red in their logos and decor.
• In an average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 3 times around the world!
• A human being loses around 40 to 100 strands of hair a day!
• The hardest bone in the body is the jaw bone.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

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.

• Sales of Rolaids, Alka-Seltzer and Tums jump 20% in December.
• Starfish don’t have brains.
• Bone is about 4 times stronger than steel. It can endure 24,000 lbs. of pressure per square inch.
• In the U.S., it is illegal for beer commercials airing on television to depict someone actually drinking beer.
• Most cows produce more milk while listening to music.
• According to researchers, someone who is lying to you will tend to frequently look up and to their left.
• 90% of people struck by lightning survive.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

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.

• All the song titles on Bobby Vinton’s 1963 album Blue Velvet include the word “blue.”
• 40% of Americans have never visited a dentist!
• The Average American man owns 22 ties.
• It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.
• Americans will spend more on cat food this year than on baby food.
• Dolphins nap with one eye open.
• India contains more universities than any other country.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

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.

• Acupuncture uses 388 sites on the body, including 26 just for toothaches.
• All of Japan’s highways are toll roads; it costs more than $300 to go cross-country.
• 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half the world population.)
• Great Danes hail from Germany, not Denmark.
• Every year in the U.S., more trees are planted than are cut down.
• It’s easier to find gold than to win the lottery.
• People tend to eat less when food is served on a blue plate.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

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.

• Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan were all members of the NRA—and they were all shot.
• There are more than 200 taste buds on each of the small bumps on your tongue.
• Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Edison never graduated from high school.
• Famous storyteller Hans Christian Anderson couldn’t spell!
• One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.
• The original Clarabelle in Howdy Doody was played by Bob Keeshan, who went on to become Capt. Kangaroo.
• The first Ronald McDonald was Today show personality Willard Scott.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.

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.

• Catfish is Mississippi’s largest industry producing over 150,000 tons each year.
• The longest flight on record for a flying squirrel is 2.5 miles.
• Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
• Vegetables in V-8 Juice include tomatoes, celery, carrots, lettuce, watercress, beets, parsley, and spinach.
• Defunct Olympic sports include tug-of-war, golf, rugby, croquet, polo, lacrosse, power boating, and waterskiing.
• The moon is 2,140 miles in diameter. That’s less than the width of the continental U.S.
• Americans eat about 95 million pounds of marshmallows every year.

Harry K. Jones is a motivational speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed seminars, keynote presentations, and consulting services. Harry's top requested topics include change management, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork, and time management.  For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.