Spain's Annual "Tomatina" Draws Thousands

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Sauce Diving
A reveler dives on a street covered with squashed tomatoes during the Tomatina festival in Buñol, on August 31, 2011. The origin of the tomato fight is disputed, but most agree it started around 1940 during the early years of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship.

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