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TIL Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic, was pressed into Navy service as a troop carrier during WW1. In May 1918 Olympic spotted a surfaced German U-boat, went full speed and rammed it causing the U-boat crew to abandon ship. It’s captain was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for the attack.
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TIL – Hummel figurines were based on the paintings of Berta Hummel, later known as Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel. Early in life she enrolled in Munich’s famed State School of Applied Arts n art history, life drawing, watercolor and oil painting, and textile design graduating top of her class.
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TIL The Boyd sisters were musical muses in the 60s-70s. Jenny Boyd inspired Donovan’s Jennifer Jupiter song, and others from Mick Fleetwood. Sister Patty Boyd inspired George Harrison’s Something, If I Needed Someone and others, and Eric Clapton’s Layla, Wonderful Tonight and others.
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