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Sugarbeets are a root like a carrot or a turnip. The sugarbeet is a cousin to the red garden beet, though sugarbeets are white and much larger. You also won’t find sugarbeets in the produce section of the grocery store. The true value of a sugarbeet is, you guessed it, the sugar!
A fully grown sugarbeet is about a foot long, weighs three to five pounds, and contains about 18 percent sucrose (sugar) in its root. Amazingly, one sugarbeet can produce an entire cup of sugar!
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Punkie Night, a West Country tradition almost certainly linked with Hallowe’en, involves children marching round with lanterns made from swedes or mangelwurzels. The custom began when men coming home late at nightneeded candles to see their way. The lanterns – or ‘punkies’ – shielded the flame from the late October wind.

The Field Record Book​

Perch (Perca fluviatilis)

Biggest caught in the UK: 6lb 3oz, StreamValley Lakes, East Sussex, 12 March 2011,caught by Neill Stephen

Biggest caught worldwide by rod and reel and verified: 8lb 4oz, River Meuse, Netherlands,2010, caught by Stephan Gockel
 
On September 29, 2024, the Earth will have a “second Moon” for two months, marking a truly out-of-this-world phenomenon!
It’s an asteroid named 2024 PT5, which NASA discovered on August 7, 2024.

It originated from the Arjuna asteroid belt, where it will likely return once it leaves the planet’s orbit on November 25, 2024.
 
“Peter Sellers was originally going to ride the atom bomb in "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964). Slim Pickens (born Louis Burton Lindley Jr.) got a phone call late one evening from Stanley Kubrick: "Peter has fallen and broken his hip, I need you for a day's shoot--I need you bad and I need you now. How soon can you get on a plane and make it to London?". Slim obliged and in his haste forgot that he didn't have a passport because he had never traveled outside the US before. His entrance was delayed while he had to go through the process of getting one before he was allowed to leave the airport. When Pickens showed up on the set of "Dr. Strangelove" fully dressed as a cowboy and speaking in a thick Southern accent, the British crew thought he was "Method" acting, not knowing that this was how he always dressed and acted. He explained how he got into the rodeo business: "Well, there was this big, lanky, 15-year-old California ranch kid, and he went into the rodeo manager's office and said, 'Mister, I want to sign up for the calf-roping but my paw says I ain't allowed to. So I can't use my right name'. And the manager said, 'Son, no matter what name you use, it'll be slim pickin's out there today'. So the boy said, 'That's as good a name as any, I reckon-put me down as Slim Pickin's'. The manager spelled it 'Pickens' and the boy won $400 that afternoon."…”

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