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Charles Osborne had the hiccups for sixty-nine years

By: Meg Dilts

Charles Osborne born in 1894. At the age of 28 he started to hiccup,  and that didn't stop for 69 years. At first the spasms hit at a rate of 40 times a minute. Later in life they had tapered off to 20 a minute. Osborne married twice, fathered eight children, and died at the age of 97, one year after the hiccups mysteriously stopped.



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