National Geographic Kids USA – September 2019

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Porphyrophobia

is the fear of purple.^

A glass eye,

three sets of false

teeth, and a wig

fell into a lake under a

roller coaster in England.

A Norwegian man grew a

17.5-foot-long

beard.

That’s longer than

an ice-cream truck from

bumper to bumper.

People^

flush about

27,

trees’ worth of

toilet paper

down the drain

every day.

Some

sharks

can live to be

75 years

old.

Saucer-shaped

lenticular clouds

have been mistaken for

You can buy soap that smells like

bacon frying.

out of

chewing-gum

wrappers.

A geep is

part

goat,

part

sheep.

UFOs.

prom dress

An Iowa teenager

made her

BY JULIE VOSBURGH AGNONE