#6 The first one down the fall was not Annie Edson Taylor
While there are a lot of what are now considered silly challenges and “daredevil acts” that a ton of people (mostly young men) try to do when it comes to Niagara Falls, the first one that did something like this has become a part of history and an iconic moment in the waterfalls’ history. However, Annie Edson Taylor, a 63-year-old teacher, did do the amazing feat of going over the falls in a barrel as a way to make easy money; she was not the first!
It is little known that before attempting such a daring stunt, she first tested it by sending her cat down Niagara Falls! The name of the kitty has not been preserved by history or records, but while they do say that it got out of it “mostly unscathed,” we all must agree that this whole ordeal was animal cruelty and something stupid.
Not to mention, this makes the kitty the first one to do this stunt, despite it obviously not being something it wanted to achieve!
