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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.

• 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.

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.

• There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.
• The game “Simon Says” was originally called “Do This, Do That.”
• Tokyo is the most heavily populated urban area in the world with a population of 34 million.
• The most densely populated city in the world is Manila with 108,000 people per square mile.
• Tribune Tower, home of the Chicago Tribune newspaper, has exterior walls that are embedded with authentic pieces of famous buildings including Westminster Abbey, the Alamo, Hamlet’s castle, the Great Pyramid, the Taj Mahal, Fort Sumter and the Arc de Triomphe.
• Nearly 3/4 of all the fresh water in the world is in Canada.
• Your brain is more active when you’re dreaming than it is when you’re awake.

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 spots on dice and dominoes are called “pips.”
• The longest recorded Monopoly game is 1,680 hours, which is the equivalent of 70 days of uninterrupted playing.
• Seoul, South Korea, has the most Internet traffic in the world.
• Paris has more restaurants than any other city in the world—about 8,000.
• The cables on the Golden Gate Bridge contain 80,000 miles of steel wire.
• America’s oldest candy brand is NECCO wafers, sold since 1847.
• Pennsylvania was the first state to list its web site on its license plate.

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.

• An Italian deck of playing cards has no Queens.
• A two-hour movie uses about two miles of film.
• New York City has 722 miles of subway track.
• There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
• Hamburg, Germany, has more bridges than any other city in the world—2,300.
• In 1987 the Hollywood sign was changed to “Holywood” in honor of the Pope’s visit.
• The man-of-war jellyfish can have tentacles up to 60-feet long.

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 bottom of the Grand Canyon is above sea level.
• There are more than 60,000 acres of shopping malls in the U.S.
• The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, is the size of 78 football fields.
• Cyndi Lauper’s 1984 hit “Girl’s Just Want to Have Fun” was written by a man.
• American’s use more than 4.8 billion gallons of water flushing toilets. An estimated 976,000 U.S. homes have no flush toilets. By the way, most toilets flush in E flat.
• The American Automobile Association (AAA) has more members, 48 million, than any other U.S. organization.
• Goldfish were originally green. The Chinese bred them to be many different colors.  Gold stuck.

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.

• Beatle Paul McCartney wrote “When I’m 64″ when he was 15.
• There are more than 7,000 hotel rooms in the Las Vegas Venetian Hotel—more than can be found in all of Venice, Italy!
• According to John Hopkins University astronomers, the color of the universe is beige.
• The Nike company was founded with $1,000.
• In China, schools run from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• The scientific term for left-handedness is “sinistrality” … right-handedness is “dextrality.”
• There are about 500 species of fish capable of producing electricity.

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.