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Hah, alright. One more #OnThisDay #trivia. (stefanbohacek.online)
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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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