Watermelons have been tortured by humans for as long as humans realized watermelons are fun to blow up, smash, and carve. (I'm guessing it's been a long time.) But recently, watermelons got their revenge. Here's the story, from a watermelon, after the jump.

Watermelon Revenge

Bonus Video: The Amazing Race: Watermelon Launch

This clip from the upcoming season of The Amazing Race is a bit painful to watch; the watermelon explodes on impact with contestant Claire Champlin's face. Luckily she emerges relatively unscathed, aside from...not being able to feel her face at first. What does her partner Brooke Roberts say? "You have to finish." Only the tough survive on The Amazing Race.

(For a doctor's take on the face smashing, check out The Body Odd. And for the science-minded, physics professor Rhett Allain tries to calculate the watermelon's speed at Dot Physics.)

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