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.

• Billy Graham broke his strict rule against watching TV on Sunday for the Beatles first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
• We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.
• The most popular TV show in the world in 2008: CSI.
• The name originally considered for the TV show “Friends” was “Insomnia Cafe.”
• The most push-ups ever performed in one day was 46,001!
• The Emmy Award was originally called the “Immy.” It’s named after TV camera “imaging” tubes.
• Crayola produces 2 billion crayons a year … enough to make a giant crayon 35 feet wide and 100 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty!

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 letter “w” is the only letter in the alphabet with more than one syllable.
• When Jim Henson needed a word to describe his creations, which combined marionettes and puppets, he came up with the term “Muppets.”
• Someone has tabulated that we have 35 million laws on the books to enforce the Ten Commandments!
• Michael Jackson’s estate owns the rights to South Carolina’s state anthem, “South Carolina on My Mind.”
• The man who commissioned the Mona Lisa refused it upon completion!
• Stevie Wonder released a 1968 album under the name Eivets Rednow. (Read it backwards.)
• The Japanese word “koroski” means “death induced by overwork.”

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.

• Many fast food chains spray sugar on their potatoes, which then caramelizes during cooking and gives the fries a golden color.
• 7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an HOUR, every day of the year!
• Big Ben is not a clock, but the 13 ton bell inside the clock tower of England’s House of Parliament.
• Play-Doh was originally formulated as a compound to clean wallpaper. Silly Putty resulted from a failed World War II effort to develop an inexpensive syntheic substitute for rubber.
• In Canada, a left-hander is known as a “silly-sider.”
• There are more psychiatrists than mail carriers in the United States. Sad commentary on our current society.
• The only three English words that end in “ceed” are proceed, exceed, and succeed! All great suggestions.

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.

• Every year, nearly $2 billion dollars worth of chewing gum is sold in America alone. That’s enough to give 300 pieces a year to every American over the age of three. Now there’s a stock to take a look at!
• In 2001, after an astounding 14,000 people had signed a petition, JELL-O was made the Official State Snack of Utah. The people of Salt Lake City actually eat more lime flavored JELL-O than any other city in the world.
• If you attempted to count the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second, it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
• Ever hear of Robert Cassotto? He picked his stage name, “Bobby Darin” out of a Bronx phone book!
• Bono’s real name is Paul Hewson. His stage name is short for “Bono Vox” which comes from the Latin “bonavox,, meaning “good voice.”
• For many years, the Grand Ole Opry did not allow drums on stage!
• The microwave was born when an engineer testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation leaking from it had caused the chocolate bar in his pocket to melt! The rest is history and can be found in most every kitchen in the 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.

• The first stewardesses were on United Airlines in 1930. They had to be registered nurses.
• The TV dinner was introduced in 1954. I’ve still got a few of those in my freezer!
• There are an estimated 4,000 sunken ships off the coast of New England!
• Elvis collected statuettes of Joan of Arc and Venus de Milo.
• The ice covering Antarctica is an average of 6,500 feet thick!
• Two animals—Rin Tin Tin and Lassie—have stars on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
• Potato chips are the #1 selling snack in the United States. Statistics show that they accompany lunch 32 percent of the time and dinner 18 percent of the time.

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 reason it was once common to paint most wooden schoolhouses in the U.S. red was not because that color was preferred, but because red paint was cheaper than any other kind obtainable.
• The typical U.S. 18-year-old has spent 11,000 hours in school and 18,000 hours watching TV.
• The tombstone of Mel Blanc, the famed voice of Bugs Bunny, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, and Porky Pig, reads: “That’s all folks.”
• The Bible is available in nearly 2,500 languages, including Klingon, Vulcan, and Romulan, three languages created for the Star Trek series.
• The average American eats about 1 1/2 tons of food every year.
• The heart of a full-grown blue whale is the size of a small car; its tongue is as long as an elephant.
• The English invented football—known in the U.S. as soccer—when they kicked around the heads of Danish invaders they had slaughtered.

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.

• George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams played marbles even as adults … and still accomplished more than today’s political leaders!
• In 1920, the first “Baby Ruth” candy bar was sold. It is named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter—not the legendary baseball player Babe Ruth.
• With the introduction of the Happy Meal, McDonald’s became the largest toy distributor in the world.
• 90% of all animal species in the history of the Earth are now extinct.
• Ivan the Terrible built the Kremlin—then gouged the architect’s eyes out to prevent him from ever designing another structure like it.
• The Statue of Liberty was originally built for the Suez Canal.
• The U.S. Capitol has 365 steps—one for each day of the 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.

• During Desert Storm, one ribbon-maker shipped 30 million yards of yellow ribbon in a single month.
• A report introduced in the U.S. Senate states that a child will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television before completing elementary school!
• At the time of Pearl Harbor, the top U.S. Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced “sink us”).
• Hilter’s private train was called “Amerika.”
• According to Billboard Magazine, the #1 song of the ’60s was “Theme from a Summer Place.”
• With just one shock, an electric eel produces enough energy to light up every room in an average three-bedroom house.
• Edy’s Grand Ice Cream created the flavor Rocky Road after the stock market crash of October 1929. The company hoped the flavor’s whimsical name would give people something to smile about.

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.

• Glass never wears out. It can be recycled forever.
• The one thing creditors can’t seize if you go bankrupt is your wedding ring.
• The first “streamlined swimsuits” of the early 1900s were made of wool and weighed as much as 20 lbs.!
• The bald eagle’s nest can weigh as much as a ton … must have a hot tub!
• Your tongue has 9,000 tastes buds. Every one of mine hates liver!
• It took 1,700 years to complete the Great Wall of China!
• Americans spend $10 million a day on potato chips, and $2 million a day on exercise equipment. Hello?

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.

• Diet Pepsi was originally called “Patio Diet Cola.”
• At their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart.
• It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce … and 13 hours to build a Toyota!
• Tsunamis travel as fast as jet planes!
• Historic Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long. Do they round off?
• In the year 1850, 94% of our energy still came from one source: human and animal muscle power. Today, less than 1% comes from this source!
• In the early 1900s, the first automobiles frightened so many pedestrians and horses that Tennessee passed a law requiring every motorist who planned to drive to warn the public one week in advance by inserting a notice in the local newspaper!

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.