James Burke - Connections, ep.1 (clip)

See what your answers would be to these questions. I didn't like the answers I had.

Mutant Spud

Lebanese farmer Khalil Semhat holds a giant potato in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on December 6, 2008. The farmer couldn't believe his peeled eyes when he discovered he had grown a massive potato weighing 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds), he said today, adding that he now hopes to enter the Guinness World Records book. AFP/Getty Images

This one is ripe for a caption contest.

I'll start it off: FEED ME!!!

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chilies

Chinese farmers dried chilies under the sun on the outskirts of Kurla, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Tuesday (Reuters)

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