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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the 42? dept.

How many hot dogs can a human possibly eat? Science finally has an answer:

How many hot dogs do you think you could eat in one sitting?

You know, if you had to?

Fortunately, science has now provided an answer. Researchers analyzed 39 years of data from the annual Nathan's Famous Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest[*] and, using mathematical modeling, calculated the maximum number of hot dogs one person could possibly eat during the contest's 10-minute duration. The new study published Tuesday in the journal Biology Letters.

The answer, it turns out, is 84.

[*] Contest web site and Hall of Fame.

Journal Reference:
James M. Smoliga. Modelling the maximal active consumption rate and its plasticity in humans, Biology Letters (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0096)


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:54PM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday July 26 2020, @03:54PM (#1026603) Journal

    How do those methods work? This is the first I've heard of them.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @05:18PM (#1026633)

    Mongols, when slaughtering a sheep, isolate the animal well away from the flocks and their view, cover up her mouth to prevent noise/scream, cut a small opening near the heart, insert a hand and squeeze the heart to stop the blood circulation.