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A. During that time he hiccupped 430 million times.
B. An average person hiccups only about 2,300 times in their life.
C. He started hiccuping when he was weighing one of his pigs.
D. One year later Charles Osborne died at the age of ninety-seven.
E. Some people believe that the best one is to scare somebody with hiccups.

HICCUPS FOREVER

Almost every one of us gets hiccups from time to time. It usually happens because

we eat too fast or we laugh out loud. We know how to get rid of hiccups quickly

because there are many home cures for that. 1) .............. . Others suggest drinking water.

Different things help different people and usually the hiccups are gone after a few minutes.

2) .......... However, one man, Charles Osborne from Iowa, hiccuped for sixty-eight years.

At first it was forty times a minute and then it slowed to twenty hiccups a minute. And

strangely, his hiccups didn't start because he was eating too quickly. 3) .............. .

The hiccups didn't stop him from leading a normal life. He had two wives and eight children.

His hiccups stopped as mysteriously as they started. 4) ............... . His name is in Guiness

World Records as the man with the Longest Attack of Hiccups.