Harry Houdini, (1874-1926), a famous escapologist, had many methods of freeing himself from chains and other forms of restraint. Some of them remain secret even today.
One of his secrets was an ability to expand his muscles to an abnormal degree so that, when he relaxed them, chains that had seemed to be bound tightly round him became comparatively loose. An authority on the mechanism of all kinds of locks, he knew many different ways of opening them. Also, he was amazingly agile, having begun his performing career as a circus acrobat.
Houdini publicly claimed that he could not be injured by a blow to the abdomen. But he died from peritonitis after a blow ruptured his appendix. He was struck unexpectedly by a college student who did not realize that Houdini had first to steel himself to withstand the blow.
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