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TIL during the Titanic’s sinking, Lucile Carter and her children was separated from her husband William. When she met him again on the rescue ship Carpathia, “All he said was that he had had a jolly good breakfast and that he never thought I would make it.” They divorced less than two years later.

by whatilearned April 25, 2022, 8:13 am

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TIL that in 1940 Hitler decided to change the name of the battle cruiser “Deutschland” to “Lützow” recognizing that the sinking of a warship was a propaganda disaster if it bore the name of its country.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 10:20 am

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TIL that in 1912, after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, crewmen on its sister ship RMS Olympic went on strike over its small number and poor quality of lifeboats

by whatilearned April 10, 2022, 1:14 am

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TIL about Helen Duncan, a Scottish medium who “manifested” the spirit of a dead sailor from the HMS Barham. As the ship’s sinking was not publicized, Duncan was investigated by the Navy and became the last person charged under the Witchcraft Act of 1745 for fraudulent spiritual activity.

by whatilearned April 2, 2022, 2:03 am

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TIL in the weeks following the Titanic sinking, over 118,000 people had joined the “just missed it club”, claiming they had missed or canceled their trip at the last moment

by whatilearned March 27, 2022, 1:51 pm

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TIL As a Naval intelligence officer, Byron White wrote the report on the sinking of PT-109, commanded by John F. Kennedy. During Kennedy’s presidency, he nominated White to the Supreme Court.

by whatilearned February 21, 2022, 8:11 pm

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My GrandPa warned everyone about the Titanic sinking, sadly no one listened and even worse…

by cringeyjokesman February 11, 2022, 12:23 pm

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TIL of HMS Dreadnought, a ship built in 1906. It used such revolutionary technology that a whole new class of battleships named “dreadnoughts” was created. It was the fastest battleship in the world and had 32 guns. However, its only significant action was ramming and sinking a German submarine.

by whatilearned February 10, 2022, 6:34 pm

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Facebook just lost 232 billion in value, that’s 29 dollar per person on the planet, is Facebook past its prime and sinking, and if so why?

by QuestionGuy February 6, 2022, 2:03 pm

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TIL: The second officer of the Titanic (Charles Lightoller), who survived by swimming from the sinking ship to a capsized raft, later in life sailed his civilian craft to Dunkirk (France) and saved/evacuated about 130 people in WW2.

by whatilearned January 24, 2022, 8:12 pm

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TIL the first movie about the Titanic was released just 29 days after the sinking. It was written by and starred a survivor, who had a mental breakdown after filming. The film was destroyed in a fire and only a few stills survive

by whatilearned January 22, 2022, 7:39 pm

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TIL about the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, in which French foreign agents bombed an activist ship in a New Zealand port.

by whatilearned January 22, 2022, 1:02 am

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