you didn't need to know facts: hot dogs

• cheaper hot dogs are mostly chicken
• 7-11 sells 100 million hot dogs each year, making it the #1 North American hot dog retailer
• the cheese dog was invented in little rock, arkansas
• in chile, the local dog is called the "italiano" and is served with avocado, mayonaise, and tomato
• the Bambino reportedly gorged himself on a dozen to 18 hot dogs before blacking out on a train ride in April 1925. And a week later he was at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York, undergoing surgery for an intestinal abscess
• The first words Mickey Mouse ever uttered in a cartoon were “hot dogs” (in “The Karnival Kid, 1929)
• dirty harry doesn't like ketchup or catsup on hot dogs
• BONUS: ketchup is the great, great, great, great, great, (etc) grandchild of an asian fish sauce (tomato sauce that evolved over time)
• The Webster's Dictionary of 1913 defined "catchup" as a "table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc. [Written also ketchup].