Hah, alright. One more #OnThisDay #trivia.
#OTD in 1901, on her 63rd birthday, an American schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor became “the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel”.
“Her motives were financial but she never made much money from her adventure. […] Her manager, Frank M. Russell, ran away with her barrel […]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Edson_Taylor
#history #WomensHistory #NiagaraFalls #BarrelRoll
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