Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 21, 2019

Osborne had been hiccupping for 68 years, huh?

Did he die in 1990, & that is why he stopped?

Charles didn’t try hard enough? Must have been a miserable life !

I’ll bet the horses would’ve won the race if there wasn’t an extra load on their backs.

Not fair! The human should’ve carried a horse on his back!

No wonder so many VN Vets have PTSD. And then they came home to snubbing and hatred.

In a marathon I am surprised that the humans have only one twice, while horses are powerful sprinters (even while carrying a human on their backs) most breeds are not endurance runners, whereas a trained human runner can hold a steady pace for the entire 26 miles while horses need to alternate between gaits

Slow horses, or fast people?

It seems to have done something to his eye.

Semper Fi! Where is this facts origin? VN 68-69 3rd Marines. Fighting the agent orange cancer and loving Jesus!

Found the source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_arms#cite_ref-11

Did Mr Osborne stopped hiccuping because he stopped breathing….forever?

Gee whiz, how’d Osborne ever sleep?

Did Charles stop hiccuping because he “Croaked”?

I don’t know the details of this particular marathon race, but Arabian horses excel in endurance and could easily beat any human over a distance of 25 to 100 miles.

Thank Jane “the Trader” Fonda……

Yes, Thanks to the peace, love group that spouted more venom than any cobra. The men and women that came back from Vietnam need to get a thank you for all they endured through the years.

Death has a way of stopping those hiccups, Charles. Oh, you mean?

I was in the Cold War, (Manzarali, Turkey) but a man from my unit went to Viet Nam on TDY and became the first American casualty. Ironically, he went in place of someone else. Now, the man he went in place of says he knows what it’s like to have someone else die for you!

Looking at the drawing, I wonder how well the human would do with a horse on his back…

How can you survive hiccupping for decades? A cousin of mine sometimes has it for some hours, and he says that the pain is increasing.

It seems unbelievable that humans can outrun horses in the long run. I can believe it because I have seen a film were some people in Africa were outrunning Antilopes. They were hunting them barefeet, the Antilopes were much faster in the beginning, but had to pause more and more often, and when the hunting human came closer, the started running again – until they simply fell down and couldn’t run anymore.

Further research tells me that Osborne had brain damage in that particular function. He hiccuped every 1.5 seconds on average, so it was pretty rapid, too. He learned to breathe methodically between hiccups to quiet them. I guess it wasn’t as inconvenient as it sounds, because he lived to 97 and had eight kids. It got harder later, between dentures and difficulty swallowing fast enough, so he blended his food.

why’d he stop?

Did Osborne’s hiccup stop because He died?