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TIL that magician Dai Vernon once challenged Harry Houdini to solve one of his card tricks, the latter boasting he could solve any trick after three tries. After seven times, Houdini still couldn’t solve it and Vernon came to be known as “The Man Who Fooled Houdini.”

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