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Australia toasts its watermelon man
Feb 22, 2009, 4:52 GMT
Sydney - Australian John Allwood broke his own world record Sunday by smashing 47 watermelons with his forehead in 60 seconds.
The professional melon picker from the Queensland town of Chinchilla head-butted 40 to oblivion at last year's Chinchilla Melon Festival.
Chinchillla, 300 kilometres north of Brisbane, produces a quarter of the nation's melon crop and its four-day festival is growing in popularity with people into fruit-abuse.
Among the contests on offer are melon shot-putting and melon pip-spitting.
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