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How do you get hiccups?

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you get hiccups when the main muscle of your lungs has like a spasm and closes the tubes in you vocal box making the hiccup noise.
YA, but if you want to get hiccups then you just have to like read a bunch of funny things, practically, you have to laugh alot

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Tristan

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