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WWDTM Best of NMJ Thanksgiving

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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The Hot Dog Eating Contest

Joey Chestnut may be the winningest champion but he's not the only notable one. Joe Baldini and Paul Seiderman co-winners in 1980 despite doing what? A, co-winning a potato salad eating contest an hour earlier. B, both getting stung by bees during the competition were C, only eating nine hot dogs each. In the 80s, a hot dog a minute was good enough to win.

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