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Spain's Madcap Tomato Festival, La Tomatina

 Each year tens of thousands of people hurl truckloads of tomatoes at each other, sending knee-deep rivers through the small Spanish town.
Fernando Bustamante / AP

Downpour
Local lore says that the first Tomatina began with a food battle that broke out between youngsters near a vegetable stand on the town square.

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