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Default How many hot dogs (with buns) can you eat in 10 minutes

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:34:19 -0700 (PDT), A Moose in Love
> wrote:

> Capping a week when a new scientific report concluded that Americans
> were eating more, and more frequently, it took 10 minutes and 62 hot
> dogs for Joey Chestnut to win his fifth consecutive Nathan's Famous
> Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, N.Y.


I always wondered how all those skinny people can win eating contests;
then I read somewhere that the people who win those contests have
stomachs that are placed lower than normal people's are. I guess it's
not constricted by the rib cage.

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