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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.

• Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every two innings!
• Experts say the average person spends 30 years mad at a family member.
• Jupiter is large enough to fit all the planets of the solar system inside it.
• Pepper is the top-selling spice in the world. Mustard is #2.
• The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter sandwiches by high school graduation.
• There are eight flavors of NECCO wafers: lemon, orange, lime, clove, cinnamon, wintergreen, licorice, and chocolate.
• The average American only knows about 10% of the words in the English language.

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.

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.

• Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. This same chemical is also found in Prozac.
• Every year in the U.S., eight tons of gold are used to make class rings.
• Japan has more than 13 million golfers but only 1,200 golf courses.
• Only 20% of the Sahara is covered with sand—the rest is rocks.
• The automobile was invented in 1886; the used-car lot was invented in 1897.
• The word disco means “I learn” in Latin.
• 65% of American candy brands are more than 50 years old.

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.

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.

• Burger King’s Whopper cost $.37 when it was introduced in 1957. McDonalds hamburger cost $.15 at that time.
• Every second, 100,000 chemical reactions occur in your brain.
• It takes an average of 45 minutes to reach an actual person when calling the IRS during tax season.
• One species of moth lives entirely on cow tears.
• We see a man in the moon. Other cultures see a woman, an ape, or a rabbit.
• The U.S. is the only western country with restrictions of marriage between cousins.
• In the 1700s, people added butter to their coffee.

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.

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.

• The average age of a new grandparent in the U.S. is 47.
• Emily Dickinson wrote 1,700 poems. Seven of them were published in her lifetime.
• It takes 96 hours to completely recover from jet lag.
• No wonder they’re big boned … Elephants spend 18 hours a day eating.
• Toys “R” Us was originally called the “Children’s Supermarket.”
• The S.S. in a ship’s name stands for “steamship.”
• Americans spend $2 billion per year on candles.

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.

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.

• At the outbreak of World War I, the American Air Force consisted of only 50 men.
• Do you know how long it takes the Earth to go around the sun? 46% of Americans don’t!
• In 1924, a new Ford cost $265.
• New Jersey is #1 in the nation for hazardous waste sites with 96.
• Thomas Edison proposed to his second wife by Morse Code.
• The Mayflower was dismantled by the Pilgrims and turned into a barn.
• The Washington Monument is sinking at a rate of six inches per year.

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.

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 soda can can hold 90 pounds per square inch of pressure … three times as much as a car tire.
• Chinese fishermen train otters to herd fish into their nets.
• Most of the egg rolls sold in the U.S. are made in Houston.
• There are 412 doors in the White House.
• The Library of Congress has 327 miles of bookshelves.
• Jupiter has 63 moons.
• In 1910 about 32 million Americans lived on farms. Today, less than 5 million do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• Aircraft are not allowed to fly over the Taj Mahal.
• Birmingham, Alabama, has 22 more miles of canals than Venice, Italy.
• In real life, Davey Crockett never wore a coonskin cap. Disney made that up.
• More children are accidentally poisoned by toxic houseplants than by household chemicals.
• There are as many molecules in 1 teaspoon of water as there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic ocean.
• The ears of an African elephant can weigh up to 110 lbs. Each.
• When Saddam Hussein was found in Iraq in 2003, he had Mars and Bounty candy bars with him.

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.

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 French kiss is known as an English kiss in France.
• Bimonthly can mean both 1) every other month and/or 2) twice a month.
• In Bavaria, beer isn’t just a drink—it’s considered a staple food, like bread or eggs.
• Marine turtles rid their bodies of excess salt by weeping.
• Theodore Roosevelt wrote 40 books.
• The double popsicle stick was introduced during the Depression … so two people could share it.
• One chocolate chip provides enough food energy to walk 150 feet.

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.

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.

• Added together, the world’s unused frequent flyer miles equal 42,500 round trips to the sun.
• Ben Franklin once wrote an essay on the possibility of waterskiing.
• India ink comes from … China.
• The largest private landowner in New York City is the Catholic Church. The second largest is Columbia University.
• Technically speaking, there are only 46 states in the U.S. … Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia are commonwealths.
• The common flu kills 20,000 people a year.
• Barry White’s music has been used by marine biologists to encourage sharks to mate.

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.