FACTS OF THE MONTH:

The total area of Denver International Airport is 53 square miles, twice the size of Manhattan Island, New York, and larger than the city boundary of Boston, Miami or San Francisco.

Sir Winston Churchill rationed himself to 15 cigars a day.

The majority of non-white American adults are lactose-intolerant.

The children's nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" originally referred to the Black Plague which killed over a quarter of the population of Europe in the fourteenth century.

J. Paul Getty, at one time the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his mansion.

Although the United States and Canada celebrate Labor Day in September, most of the rest of the world celebrate it on May 1st. We call that day May Day.

Because of her royal standing, Princess Ann, a competitor in the equestrian events at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, was the only olympic athlete who did not have to take a sex test.

Camels are born without humps.

Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won a Pulitzer Prize. He is also the only one to have written a movie ("Beyond the Valley of the Dolls").

The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.

According to the sci-fi series "Space: 1999", 13 September 1999 was the day that atomic explosions on the lunar surface hurled the moon out of its orbit and into deep space.

In 1935 Jesse Owens broke four world records in 35 minutes.

The "Yongle dadian," an encyclopedia of the Chinese Ming dynasty, had 22,937 chapters in 10,000 volumes. Over 2,000 Chinese scholars worked on the book for 5 years before it was finished.

The first operators employed by the Bell Telephone Company were young boys who worked standing up. Only after several years did it occur to anybody to provide them with chairs.

A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

From The Farmers Almanac: To test your love, you and your lover should each place an acorn in water. If they swim together, your love is true; if they drift apart, so will you.

In a National Geographic survey of 18- to 24-year-olds -- high-school and college graduates -- one in seven -- about 24 million people -- could not find the United States on a world map.

"The Untouchables" (1959) was the most violent television show of its time. It became the target of more protests from viewers than any other regular TV series. To this day, it is the only TV program ever boycotted by mobsters over unfair treatment.

"Valley of the Dolls," Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel, was originally titled "They Don't Build Statues to Businessmen."

An American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33% of dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an answering machine while away.

Milk delivered to the store today was in the cow two days ago.

The word 'hurricane' is derived from the name of the West Indian god of storms, Huracan.

According to a survey, the most popular day for eating out in the United States is one's own birthday — 49 percent of American adults do. The worst holiday for eating out is Grandparents' Day, with less than 5 percent participating.

Edgar Allan Poe was expelled from West Point because he showed up for a parade in his birthday suit.

A space vehicle must move at a rate of at least 7 miles per second to escape the earth's gravitational pull. This is equivalent to going from New York to Philadelphia in about twenty seconds.

After his infamous 1997 ear-biting attack on Evander Holyfield, the Hollywood Wax Museum moved boxer Mike Tyson's figure to the Chamber of Horrors - next to Dr. Hannibal Lechter.

The original Hollywood sign read 'Hollywoodland' and was lit up by 4,000 lights. A 400-ft (120m) high replacement was erected in 1978, Hollywood's 75th anniversary.

In the city of Washington D.C., no building may be built taller than the Washington Monument.