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Jul 8 2009, Michael Rundle

Filed under: Food, News Last Saturday was July 4, America’s Independence Day, a traditional holiday where they gather with their families and watch a man named Joey Chestnut eat hot dogs. Yes, not only was July 4 the celebration of a nation’s birth, it wa

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This undated photo released by Kelley Davis via the News & Observer shows Augie, a 2-year-old greater Swiss mountain dog in Apex, N.C., that ate $400 cash that Davis made working extra hours. The 42-year-old Davis says when she took Augie for a walk...