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Article: WHY HICCUPS ARE JUST ONE BIG YAWN; They're 'completely useless'.(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- April 8, 1999
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ONE of the great mysteries of the human body - why we hiccup - may have been solved at last.
Leading scientists, after years of deliberation and research, have decided that the phenomenon serves no useful purpose from the moment we're born.
They say it is a throwback to our time in the womb, when foetuses hiccup to clear their developing airways.
But after birth, those annoying little spasms have done their job and ...