Harry Houdini was born today in 1874 in Budapest, Hungary. Houdini died in 1926 after a taking several blows to his abdomen. Houdini claimed that he could sustain punches to his midesection without any injury, but was caught off-guard by several powerful blows and later died from peritonitis, an inflammation (irritation) of the peritoneum, the membrane that lines the wall of the abdomen and covers the abdominal organs..
Sounds like a classic case of hubris to me.
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Hubris+Houdini=Dead Dumb Ass
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