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The Titanic is the only ocean liner

to ever be sunk by an iceberg.

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After hitting the iceberg, it took the Titanic 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink.

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The Titanic could have been saved if it wasn't for a 30-second delay in giving the order to change course after spotting the iceberg.

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Most lifeboats launched off the Titanic were not filled to capacity.

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The Titanic's chief baker "fortified" himself with alcohol and thus survived the freezing water for 2 hours until he was rescued.

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The budget for the Movie "Titanic" was higher than the Titanic itself.

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The Musicians of the Titanic kept playing music for hours as the ship sank.

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Only 333 bodies of the Titanic's victims were recovered, one in five of the over 1500 victims.

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Four forward compartments could flood without risk of the Titanic sinking. Six did.

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The Titanic's fourth funnel was fake. It was added to make the ship look more powerful and symmetrical.

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The Japanese who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.

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The most expensive First Class suites in the Titanic were to have cost up to £870 (£75,156 today).

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Nearly a dozen couples were celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic.

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53% of the people on the Titanic could have survived using the lifeboats. Only 31% did.

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Not a single engineer, out of the 30, made it off the Titanic: they stayed and kept the power on so others could escape.

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The iceberg that sank the Titanic began its journey somewhere around 1000 BCE.

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Ships today are more likely to encounter an iceberg than the Titanic was.

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Kate Winslet, who played in the movie "Titanic," hated the song "My Heart Will Go On", and said it makes her feel "like throwing up."

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It took 73 years to find the wreck of the Titanic.

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3 dogs survived the Titanic sinking out of 12 canines on board.

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Kim II-Sung, founder of North Korea, was born on the day the Titanic sank.

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29 days after the Titanic sank, a movie about it was released. It featured an actress who was actually on the Titanic and survived.

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After the Titanic sank, the families of the band members were billed By White Star Line for the cost of the uniforms worn as the band members died.

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A man who survived the sinking of a ship in 1871 was finally able to overcome his fears and decided to sail again in 1912: he died in the sinking of the Titanic.

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A priest on the Titanic refused to board a lifeboat twice. Instead, he stayed behind to hear confessions and give absolution to the people left on the ship.

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In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank, author Morgan Robertson wrote a book about an "unsinkable" ship called the "Titan" that crashed into an iceberg and sank.

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There's a conspiracy theory saying the Titanic never sunk. Instead, it was her sister ship, the Olympic, and it was an insurance scam.

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A newly-discovered species of rust-eating bacteria will have consumed the wreck of the Titanic within 20 years.

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Ben Guggenheim, heir to mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim, dressed in his finest suit, had a glass of brandy and smoked a cigar as the Titanic sank.

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James Cameron sought Hollywood funding for the movie "Titanic" not because he wanted to make the movie, but because he wanted to dive to the shipwreck.

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The estimated value of the cash, bonds and jewellery carried by The Titanic's passengers was US$6,000,000.

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The movie "Titanic" won 11 Oscars, but none for acting.

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The RMS Titanic

was built

in Belfast,

Northern Ireland.

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Titanic II will be a close replica of the Titanic, and is set to sail in 2018.

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The Titanic crew had no binoculars , which may have helped them see the iceberg. They were inside a locker and the key was lost.

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Chocolate magnate Milton Hershey canceled his reservations for the Titanic due to last minute business matters.

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After the Titanic's sinking, almost all of those in the water died of cardiac arrest or other bodily reactions to freezing water, within 15–30 minutes.

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The Titanic's electrical plant was capable of producing more power than an average city power station of the time.

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The Titanic's architect, Thomas Andrews, was among those who died in the sinking.

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A disproportionate number of men were left aboard the Titanic because of a "women and children first" protocol followed while loading the lifeboats.

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A single Boeing 777 Engine delivers twice the horsepower of all the Titanic's steam engines combined.

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The co-owner of Macy's died on the Titanic. He refused to get in a lifeboat before women and children, and his wife refused to leave without him. They were last seen standing on the deck, arm in arm.

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The second officer of the Titanic, who survived by swimming from the sinking ship to a capsized raft, later in life sailed his civilian craft to Dunkirk and helped evacuate over 130 men.

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Titanic Facts 43 Facts about The Titanic

Titanic Facts
43 Facts about The Titanic