How Houdini Stayed in an Underwater Coffin for 90 Minutes
(via mental_floss) By 1926, the year he died, Harry Houdini had made an elephant disappear, walked out of a brick wall assistants had built around him, regurgitated needles and blades, swam out of a nailed-shut box into which he’d been shackled and thrown into the East River, and escaped countless handcuffs and straitjackets (often while hanging upside-down).
