Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, has been hospitalized due to hiccups that have lasted for 10 days, accompanied by abdominal pain. “I apol

The Man Who Had Constant Hiccups For 68 Years Straight

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2021-07-17 20:00:05

Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, has been hospitalized due to hiccups that have lasted for 10 days, accompanied by abdominal pain.

“I apologize to everyone who is listening to me, because I’ve been hiccuping for five days now,” Bolsonaro said in an interview with Radio Guaiba, nearly a week before he was hospitalized. “I have the hiccups 24 hours a day.”

Hiccuping for this long may sound like hell, but spare a moment's thought for Charles Osborne, who hiccuped for 68 years, earning himself a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

In 1922, Charles Osborne was attempting to weigh a pig. He picked up the 158-kilogram (350-pound) hog, and immediately fell to the floor. From then on, he [hic] went through [hic] life having his [hic] thoughts [hic], food consumption and [hic] sentences interrupted by [hic] constant hiccuping. See how annoying that is?

The hiccups started at around 40 hiccups per minute for the first few decades, before slowing down to a cool 20 hiccups per minute. By the end of his life, he was forced to blend his food into a smoothie, unable to swallow whole food between hiccups.