#1. A Japanese man survived the sinking and made it home to Japan. But, he wasn’t accepted back in Japan, and people shamed him, saying he should have gone down with the ship.
#2. In one of the most emotional scenes in the movie the band continued playing to keep passengers calm. This actually happened in real life.
#3. If the iceberg had been spotted just 30 seconds earlier, the whole disaster could have been avoided.
#4. Milton Hershey, AKA the man behind Hershey’s chocolate, had a ticket for the sailing but didn’t end up going.
#5. The Titanic’s four smoke stacks are a big part of its iconic look. In reality, the fourth one was just for decoration, and didn’t actually do anything.
#6. Half of the lifeboats used on the Titanic weren’t filled to capacity.
#7. Only one ocean liner has ever been sunk by an iceberg: the Titanic.
#8. There was an emergency evacuation drill scheduled for the day before the Titanic went down, so that passengers would know what to do if anything happened to the ship. It was cancelled.
#9. The iceberg that sank the Titanic has been floating around since 1,000 BC.
#10. It cost more to make James Cameron’s film Titanic than it cost to make the actual ship, Titanic.
#11. The chef was one of the survivors from the ship. His survival is credited to the large amounts of alcohol he drank before going under, which kept him warm.
#12. The Californian, another ship, was close to the Titanic when it went down. Unfortunately, communication was delayed and the ship couldn’t help rescue survivors.
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