Top 10 Interesting Facts About The RMS Titanic – 10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Titanic

Lego Titanic Sinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0_wbl8TlI

Titanic not as famous as the films make out. Her sister ship Olympic made the same maiden voyage a year earlier and the newspapers at the time had to use pictures of that ship as they didn’t have pictures of the titanic.

Titanic had four smokestacks, but only three of them were actually functional, the one closest the rear was purely for show!

Nobody ever claimed the titanic was unsinkable! In one magazine article it was claimed that it was practically unsinkable with all the watertight doors shut.

The lookout crew couldn’t have seen the fatal iceberg, because they didn’t have any binoculars. They were locked in a cupboard and nobody could find the key.

The Titanic used 825 tons of coal a day. That’s the same weight as 840000 kg bags of sugar. That doesn’t help.

Microbes are eating the Titanic and it’s reckoned that the wreckage will be gone in about 20 years from now.

The 1997 movie Titanic cost more than the ship itself cost to build.

It took 73 years before the wreckage of the Titanic was located, in 1985.

There was supposed to be a lifeboat practice less than a day before Titanic sunk, but it was cancelled.

12 dogs on the titanic, but only three survived.

drjake

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