National Geographic Kids USA - June, July 2017

© DREAMWORKS ANIMATION (MAIN); ANDREY KUZMIN / DREAMSTIME (CURTAINS, SEATS); ALAN COTTON / DREAMSTIME (UNDERWEAR); RMARTORELLI / DREAMSTIME (CLOTHESPINS); KATRINA BROWN / DREAMSTIME (TWINE); GREGORY REC / PORTLAND PRESS HERALD / GETTY IMAGES (ANT); FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP / GETTY IMAGES (YVES ROSSY); MEDUSA GRAPHICART / DREAMSTIME (BRAIN); FLUXFOTO / GETTY IMAGES (CAR OIL)

FOOD FUEL

The same glowing cafeteria goo

that helps Captain Underpants

fly powers the enlarged mobile

toilet that Professor Poopypants

gets around on. Some real-life

cars also run on food goo: french fry oil and cooking

grease! First the oils are filtered to remove bits of food.

Mix in a few more chemicals, and a car that normally

runs on diesel fuel can zoom away on grease power.

BRAINPOWER

Supervillain Professor Poopypants’s evil

plan is to zap away everyone’s hahaguffaw-

chuckleamalus, or the giggle-making part

of the brain. In real life, different parts

of your brain work together to make you

laugh. The left hemisphere, or side, of your brain figures out

what a joke means; the right hemisphere decides if it’s funny.

If it is, the parts of your brain that control muscle movement

tell your body to make laughing sounds. All in a few seconds.

ational Underwear Day

vents take place around

he world every August.

a tradition in Italy to wear

underpants for good luck

on New Year’s Eve.

Some companies make

nti-flatulence underwear

that supposedly filters

out stinky odors.

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in England holds a Guinness

Records title for putting on

most pairs of underpants

in one hour: 144!

cient Egyptian pharaoh

ng Tut was buried with

ots of clean underwear

for the afterlife.

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