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Chestnut Wins Hot Dog Eating Contest for 12th Time [VIDEO]
What can you say? Joey Chestnut must love hot dogs, and eating them fast! He entered the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest for the 15th time, and for the 12th time, he walked or "waddled" away the champion!
Chestnut ended up eating 71 hot dogs and buns, just off the all time record that he hold of 74!
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