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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

• 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.

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 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.

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.

• 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.

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 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.

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.