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Why we hiccup

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The Hiccup Reflex

Babies hiccup weigh more than adults. Hiccups may actually trace back evolutionarily to our last common ancestor with amphibians. Tadpole still hiccup, and it's basically a mechanism to kind of quickly close things off - prevent water from getting in their lungs.

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