Someone worked out you could eat hot dogs really fast and now there's actual prize money involved.
Fun fact: Nathan's claims its contest started in 1916, but the origin story was likely a PR fabrication.
Their language isn't related to a single one of their neighbours', which is a properly impressive level of stubbornness.
Fun fact: Ernő Rubik took a full month to solve his own Rubik's Cube after inventing it in 1974.