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FUN FACTS
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The average American eats 50 hot dogs every year.
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Hot dogs were of the first food eaten on the moon. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. ate hot dogs on their 1969 journey.
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Nearly 90 percent of hot dog eaters choose mustard as their go-to topping. In Chicago, they like to use cucumber, tomato, pickle, onion and pickle relish and in Los Angeles they use mayonnaise and cheese. #weirdos
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While it is often thought that hot dogs are the all-American food, they were first invented in 1484 in Frankfurt, Germany. (fitting that some clowns from Oktoberfest came up with this party, eh?)
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