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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.

• The Great Salt Lake is getting saltier—rivers dump 1.1 million tons of new salt into it every year.
• The Hollywood sign weighs 450,000 lbs., an average of 50,000 lbs. per letter.
• The Japanese world koroski means “death induced by overwork.”
• The King Ranch in Texas is larger than the entire state of Rhode Island plus the Borough of Brooklyn, or the size of 982 Central Parks.
• The letter combination “ough” can be pronounced in eight different ways.
• There are 20 possible answers on a Magic 8-Ball: 10 positive, 5 negative, and 5 neutral.
• The White House has a variety of indoor recreational facilities available to the President and his family, including a tennis court, a jogging track, swimming pool, movie theater, billiard room, and a bowling lane. 

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.

• Roughly 15% of the population of New Orleans practices voodoo.
• Snakes continue to grow until the day they die.
• Terminal velocity of a golf ball: 90 mph. Bowling ball: 350 mph.
• U.S. Presidents John Tyler (10), Millard Fillmore (13), and Chester Arthur (21) had no vice presidents.
• The Antarctic Ice Sheet is almost twice the size of the United States.
• The famous “horse’s head” seen in The Godfather was a real horsehead the producers got from a dog-food company.
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death.

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.

• McDonalds is the world’s largest toy distributor.
• More than 50 million decks of cards are sold in the U.S. every year.
• Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has the most mini-golf courses per area in the U.S. At last count, there were 47 in a 60-mile radius.
• On average, a movie makes about five times more from its video sales than its tickets sales.
• Potatoes are used in manufacturing medicines, paper, cloth, glue, and candy.
• It is physically impossible to tickle yourself.
• Prince Charles owns a collection of toilet seats.

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.

• From a 100 mph dive, an African eagle can come to a complete halt in 18 feet!
• General Colin Powell has a Bachelor’s degree in geology.
• Human tapeworms can grow to be 75 feet long!
• Iceland is home to 120 glaciers … and more than 100 volcanoes.
• If the heads on Mount Rushmore had bodies, they would be nearly 500 feet tall.
• It is forbidden for aircraft to fly over the Taj Mahal.
• The Eiffel Tower is repainted every seven years. The paint weighs 60 tons.

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.

• Coca-Cola slogan from 1906: “The Great National Temperance Beverage.”
• Dogs have fewer than 2,000 taste buds … humans have about 9,000.
• Downtown Chicago is called the Loop because it’s encircled by elevated train tracks.
• Estimated weight of Egypt’s Great Pyramid: 6,648,000 tons.
• Spongebob Squarepants creator Steve Hillenburg studied marine biology in college.
• Every year, U.S. doctors leave surgical tools in approximately 1,500 patients.
• For more than 600 years, the official language of England was … French. 

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.

• Aretha Franklin’s voice has been designated a natural resource by the state of Michigan.
• At the end of the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life,” there’s an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs.
• Baskin-Robbins once made a ketchup-flavored ice cream.
• Beatle George Harrison owned a musical toilet that played “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.”
• Chewing gum can help improve your memory.
• TV’s Mr. Rogers made Crayola’s 100 billionth crayon in 1996. The color was “blue ribbon.”
• Combined, American children spend 6.3 billion hours coloring with crayons annually.

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 cow must be a mother before she will produce milk. To make 9 gallons of milk a day, a cow must drink 18 gallons of fresh, clean water (2 gallons of water for every gallon of milk).
• A cricket cannot hear its own chirping.
• Adding up all the times you blink in a day, your eyes are closed for a total of 30 minutes.
• All-night diner’s have a term for 2:30 a.m., when the bars close. They call it Drunk-thirty.
• All U.S. telephones were turned off to honor Alexander Graham Bell during his funeral in 1922.
• Animal sounds: Apes gibber, deer bell, and hippos bray.
• Hannibal, Missouri, celebrates its annual Tom Sawyer Day with a fence-painting race.

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.

• About 50 Bibles are sold every minute.
• U.S. Marines are called “Leathernecks” because they once wore leather collars to protect their necks from being slashed by sabers.
• You cannot burp in space.
• About 1,500 New York residents are bitten every year … by other New Yorkers.
• Members of Congress don’t need postage stamps for official mail — their signature counts as a stamp.
• A cloud measuring one cubic mile weighs about 3.5 million pounds.
• The marshmallows in Lucky Charms cereal are technically known as “marbits.”

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.

• More hot dogs—2 million a year—are sold at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport than at any other location in the world.
• Sliced bread was banned during WWII. The slicers were melted down for the war effort.
• In Eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.
• Chicago has 29 miles of lake frontage and 15 miles of public beach.
• A lightning bolt strikes so fast it could circle the globe eight times in a second.
• 90% of all airplane collisions take place on the ground.
• 1 lb. of coffee makes about 50 cups; 1 lb. of tea leaves makes about 300 cups of tea.

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 Chicago River is always dyed green on St. Patrick’s Day.
• If you want to remember your dreams, write them down as soon as you wake up. After 5 minutes, 50% of the dream fades from memory; after 10 minutes, 90% is gone.
• An octopus lays about 100,000 eggs at a time.
• Starfish have anywhere from 3 to 50 arms—and one eye at the end of each arm.
• Grocers got their name because they sold goods by the gross.
• There are more bagpipe bands in the U.S. than there are in Scotland.
• There are 158 verses in the Greek national anthem.

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.