• 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.

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Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – May 25, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• 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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – May 18, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• 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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – May 11, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• 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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – May 4, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• 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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – April 27, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• 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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – April 20, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• 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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – April 13, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• 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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – April 6, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• 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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – March 30, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• 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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – March 23, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• Colgate was the first toothpaste to be sold in tubes rather than jars.
• There is no constitutional way to remove a Supreme Court Justice for incompetence.
• Scientists say you have more nightmares when your bedroom is cold.
• Surveys reveal that 95% of us put our left sock on first.
• Thomas Edison had 5,000 pet birds.
• Even mild dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as 3%.
• Athens, Georgia is home to the only double-barreled cannon ever made.

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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – March 16, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• 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.

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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – March 9, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• The first rap group to appear on TV’s American Bandstand: the Sugar Hill Gang in 1981.
• The three biggest party days in the U.S.: New Year’s Eve, Super Bowl Sunday and Halloween.
• There are three times as many TV sets in the U.S. as there are people in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).
• Woodrow Wilson’s teachers labeled him a “slow learner” because he was unable to learn to read well until he was 11 years old. Yet Wilson went on to be the only president to date who earned a Ph.D.
• The smell of peppermint improves the concentration of office workers.
• Be persistent! Whoopi Goldberg was a bricklayer, funeral makeup artist, and garbage collector. Ellen DeGeneres dried cars at a car wash. President Barack Obama scooped ice cream at Baskin-Robbins.
• Chevron has an oil tanker named the “Condoleezza Rice.”

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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – March 2, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• In Mexico, the tooth fairy is called the tooth mouse.
• At its thickest point, the ice in Antarctica is 15,700-feet thick!
• California, Delaware, Florida, Oregon, Idaho, Kansas, New Hampshire,and Wyoming are all cities in the state of Ohio!
• The Barbie Fan Club has more than 7,500 member today. Dues: $24.95. Put a pencil to those figures!
• Florida’s Okeechobee Lake is as big as Rhode Island … and only nine-feet deep!
• Elvis Presley played only five concerts outside the U.S.—all in Canada.
• On average, Americans buy about 14 million gallons of toothpaste 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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – February 23, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• Chance that a public road in the U.S. is unpaved: 1%. In Canada: 75%.
• Experts have revealed that 46% of all violence on TV occurs in cartoons!
• The fastest-moving muscle in the human body is the one that opens and closes the eyelid.
• American teenagers spend more than $70 BILLION a year!
• NECCO must produce about 100,000 pounds of its conversation candy hearts every day in order to meet the Valentine demand, when about 8 billion hearts are sold in six weeks.
• The first penny candy to be wrapped in America was the Tootsie Roll in 1896.
• The reason why bubble gum is pink is because the inventor only had pink coloring left. Ever since then, the colour of bubble gum has been predominantly pink.

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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – February 16, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• The jukebox got its name from “jook,” which is African-American slang for “dance.”
• X’s symbolize kisses because in ancient days, when few people could write, they would simply sign an X to show their agreement, then kiss the mark to emphasize their sincerity.
• Because of Davy Jones’s great fame as a member of THE MONKEES, another young singer in London, also name David Jones, was forced to change his name … to David Bowie.
• The original Volkswagen Beetle was commissioned by Adolf Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche!
• In the U.S., we call back more cars than any other country produces!
• The U.S. has 75% of the world’s high school graduates and 90% of the world’s college diplomas!
• In Helsinki, Finland, police rarely give parking tickets—they deflate tires!

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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – February 9, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• Ice isn’t slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it, and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
• The Port of Houston ships and receives more foreign freight than any other U.S. port.
• The famed 7 Virtues include Faith, Hope, Charity, Fortitude, Prudence, Justice and Temperance.
• The architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was a graduate of Harvard University!
• Famed journalist Walter Winchell originally coined the term “Disc Jockey.”
• GREENland, which is mostly WHITE (snow and ice), was named by Eric the RED.
• According to experts, 75% of people wash their stomach first when showering.

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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – February 2, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• The average meteor is about the size of a grain of sand.
• Lobsters have blue blood.
• The New York Giants and the New York Jets both play their home games in New Jersey!
• The Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea aren’t seas at all—they’re both lakes.
• Beyonce is allergic to perfume.
• About 80% of taste is actually smell. That’s why food tastes so bland when you have a stuffy nose.
• It’s against the law to take photos of British police officers.

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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – January 26, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• U.S. Presidents who never attended college: Grover Cleveland, Abraham Lincoln, Harry S. Truman, and George Washington.
• U.S. Presidents who have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James A. Garfield in 1881, William H. McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy in 1963.
• The average American uses 25 barrels of oil per year. The average Japanese, about 15.
• The world’s smallest police station is in a phone booth in Carabelle, Florida. Open 8 to 4:30 Monday through Friday!
• About 70% of the Earth is covered with water but only 1% of the water is drinkable!
• In 2002, an original 1963 G.I. Joe was sold to the Geppi Museum in Baltimore for $200,000!
• Ten animals have been in outer space thus far: dog, chimp, bullfrog, cat, tortoise, bee, cricket, spider, fish and worm.

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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – January 19, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.

• If the estimated one million plus Americans who make their living on eBay were employees, it would be the nation’s third-largest employer, behind only McDonald’s and Wal-Mart.
• The resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974 meant that, for two years, the U.S. was governed by a president and vice-president neither of whom had been voted into office.
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word novel (Gadsby) in 1939 without using the letter “E.”
• Saturday Night Live was developed in 1975 after Johnny Carson requested that the network stop airing The Best of Carson on weekends.
• Elvis didn’t sing well enough to make his high school glee club!
• President Obama’s Secret Service code name is “Renegade.”
• It’s no wonder that late disc jockey Wolf-man Jack adopted such a wild personality. Had he used his birth name, he’d have become known by the rather generic Bob Smith.

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.

Fact-A-Day from Harry K. – January 12, 2010 is a post from the AchieveMax® Blog, which includes articles on business, change, leadership, motivation, teamwork, time management, and more. Please visit our site for more information on our professional speakers, custom-designed training, and keynote presentations.