The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/mikechi2501 on 2025-03-13 18:49:59.

Original Title: TIL in 2009, Claire Boucher attempted to float down the Mississippi River in a homemade houseboat filled with live chickens, a sewing machine and 20 pounds of potatoes. She failed. A year later she released her successful debut studio album. She is known professionally as Grimes.