stackyFACTSThe first person to ever survive plunging over the massive expanse of Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel was not a rugged daredevil. It was Annie Edson Taylor, a sixty-three-year-old widowed school teacher who performed the terrifying stunt in 1901 simply hoping to secure a stable retirement fund.
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