FACTS OF THE MONTH:

In Chicago it is illegal to eat in a restaurant that is on fire.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off until it dies from starvation.

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

Ben Franklin was the youngest son of a youngest son of a youngest son of a youngest son.

An average elephant weighs less than the average blue whale's tongue.

The Amazon River Basin gets on average about nine feet of rain every year.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

In Hartford, Connecticut, it is illegal to kiss your wife on a Sunday.

Samuel Morse, creator of the telegraph, was also one of America's most successful portrait painters and founded the National Academy of Design.

Eddie Murphy's two concert films, "Delirious" and "Raw," contain a combined 921 profanities.

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

Bananas don't grow on trees. They grow on compacted, water-filled leaf stalks that grow up to 25 feet high. The actual plant is the world's largest herb.