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Scientists have shed light on the bodily mechanism that causes you to heave and cough aggressively when a drink goes “down the wrong hole.” There are some bodily functions that we humans are only starting to get a handle on. For instance, earlier this week researchers revealed how blinking is actually used to better transfer visual information to the brain. Why water goes down the wrong hole in the first placeThis week, Ziai Zhu and Xin Sun from the University of California, San Diego, published a study in the Science Journal that detailed why humans have such a visceral reaction to water goin…