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The sinking of the Titanic is an event that has left an indelible mark on the face of modern humanity. Though the tragedy occurred more than 100 years ago, the average citizen still knows about the supposed unsinkable ship. But few people know what really occurred on board. Today, we're looking at 10 incredible facts about the Titanic. It's well-documented that the Titanic had many rich patrons because of the unsinkable ship's notoriety. The world's ultra wealthy lined up to get on board.

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This included an American businessman named John Jacob asked for the fourth. Not only was he the richest man on board, he is widely believed to be the richest living man. At the time, his net worth at the time of his death was 87 million dollars. That's equivalent to two point three billion dollars when adjusted for inflation. Our store left behind a number of accomplishments. He was a decorated military veteran and also wrote a popular science fiction novel called A Journey in Other Worlds.

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Like generations of asters before him, he also made millions in real estate. In 1997, Astor built the Astoria Hotel, dubbed the world's most luxurious hotel in New York City, adjoining the Waldorf Hotel, owned by Astros' cousin and rival William. The complex became known as the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and it's still one of the most iconic hotels in the world. More than 100 years later, tragically, Astal perished with his family dog, kitting his wife and unborn child who were on board managed to survive and inherited his prodigious wealth.

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Violet Jessep is either the luckiest or the unluckiest woman in the world, depending on your perception. She was a British nurse who grew up in Argentina. She was 24 when she first boarded the Titanic, where she was working as a nurse. Joseph was not quite a slave when the Titanic hit the iceberg. She later wrote, I was ordered up on deck calmly. Passengers strolled about. I stood at the bulkhead with the other stewardesses, watching the women cling to their husbands before being put into the boats with their children.

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After eight hours, Jason became one of the small percentage of Titanic passengers and crew rescued by the company. Four years later, she was onboard the Titanic sister ship, the Britannic, when it sank in the Aegean Sea due to an unexplained explosion. Britannic sank within fifty five minutes, killing 30 out of the 1066 people onboard. British authorities hypothesized that the ship was either struck by a torpedo or hit a mine planted by German forces. Remarkably, Jesup survived.

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Both of these capsized ships that were once believed to be unsinkable.

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In addition, she had been on board Armis Olympic, the eldest of the three sister ships, when it collided with a British warship called the HMS Hawk.

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Though it didn't sink, it was still remarkable that she was on board all three unlucky ships back before James Cameron was known as one of the most successful film makers of all time. He was a sci fi filmmaker attempting to create a big budget blockbuster about a cruise ship sinking 100 hundred years ago. The film was Titanic, and it quickly became the most popular movie in history. When Titanic came out in 1997, it was the highest grossing film of all time with a worldwide box office of over one point eight billion dollars.

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By some measures, it was the most viewed movie ever. But the film was not shaped to produce either. It cost a whopping two hundred million dollars, which, especially in 1990s, money was a ton of cash. Today, this would be equivalent to three hundred and sixty million dollars. But even more amazing is the fact that the movie was more expensive to produce than the original Titanic was to build. It was constructed in 1912 for a total cost of seven point five million dollars, even adjusted for inflation.

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That is just one hundred and ninety million dollars. A full 10 million short of James Cameron's budget. However, Cameron's endeavor turned out to be much more successful than that of the unfortunate ship of the same. Despite the fact that the Titanic was the largest ship ever constructed at the time of sinking, it still took 73 years to find its wreckage. Understandably, the ocean is vast. And even after numerous dedicated rescue missions, the public never knew where it actually rested.

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In the end, authorities gave up and many decades passed before the Titanic was discovered by accident. The 1985 discovery of the Titanic stemmed from a secret United States Navy investigation of two wrecked nuclear submarines. According to the oceanographer who found the infamous ocean liner, essentially the discovery, it was part of a top secret mission during the Cold War. But the Navy was sworn to secrecy on the matter until recently. On September 1st, 1985, a joint American French expedition headed by famous American oceanographer Dr.

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Robert Ballard found the Titanic over two miles below the ocean's surface by using an unmanned submersible called Argo.

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This discovery gave new meaning to the Titanic sinking and gave birth to new dreams in ocean exploration. The initial purpose of the trip was to discover if there was any nuclear waste left over from two nearby submarines. But in the end, the mission was fruitful and led to the most famous underwater discovery in history. It's no secret that the sinking of the Titanic was a deadly disaster. But the truth is that the vast majority of the passengers died in the wreckage.

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Over 1500 people died in the maritime disaster, while seven hundred and five individuals survived. Researcher Chuck NSC crunched the numbers, breaking down the demographics of the survivors. He found that 97 percent of the 144 female first class passengers were rescued, while only 32 percent of their 175 male counterparts were saved. Ultimately, he found that male second class passengers fared the worst in terms of survival, with only 14 out of 168 making it out alive.

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The total survival rate for women was 74 percent, while the male survival rate was 20 percent. Another terrible tragedy is that the boat hosted many family pets, though their quarters were opened after the ship began to sink. Only two of them managed to survive. For one passenger named Ann Elizabeth Isham, this may have led to her own demise. Legend status. She probably died because she did not want to leave behind her Great Dane. After the ship began to sink, a woman was reportedly sighted in the water with her arms frozen around a dog.

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In the end, she was only one of four first class women who perished. Eliza Gladis Malvina Dean was a British civil servant, cartographer and the last survivor of the sinking of the RMX Titanic. At two months old, she was also the youngest passenger aboard. Her parents had decided to leave England for America, but her father had family in Kansas and hoped to open a tobacco shop. The Danes had not chosen to be aboard the Titanic not because of a coal strike.

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They were transferred to the ship and boarded it as third class passengers at Southampton. Their father felt the crunch of the ship's collision with the iceberg. On the night of the 14th of April 1912 and went up to investigate, he returned to their cabin, telling his wife to dress the children and go up on deck. Though she doesn't remember it, Dean and her mother and siblings survived while her father perished in the tragic accident. As soon as Dean reached the shore, reporters crowded her, hoping to snap a photo of the Titanic infant.

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Almost 100 years later, she passed away at her senior home in England. Her ashes were scattered from a launch at the docks in Southampton, where the Titanic set sail in the final years of her life. Her housing bills were paid by Leo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and James Cameron. The Titanic was a singular ship with some crazy statistics to back it up. For example, the ship was eight hundred and eighty three feet long burned. Eight hundred and twenty five tonnes of coal a day and used more than 10000 light bulbs.

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Though many people perished during the crash, there were actually two workers who passed away during construction. In addition, the anchor was so heavy that it took 20 horses to transport it.

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The Titanic had a maximum capacity of three thousand five hundred passengers, though there were roughly 2300 on board when it sank. Of these, there were 13 honeymooning couples. This was not a very festive way to celebrate their marriage. Each lifeboat had a capacity of 65 people, but there were only 28 on the first boat. The Titanic was equipped to carry 65 lifeboats, but it only had 20 onboard because they assumed they would never need them onboard. There were 1000 bottles of wine and 40000 fresh eggs.

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An amazing 14000 gallons of drinking water was drunk every day. Miraculously, the Titanic received six iceberg warnings before finally colliding with a massive, icy monolith. Thirty one per cent of the passengers survived, but 53 per cent could have survived if the boat was properly prepared. The ship currently rests at twelve thousand six hundred feet below. Sea level, the Titanic was the largest ship in the world for its time. It was longer than the famous Lusitania built in 1936 by more than 100 feet.

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The Lusitania itself was 790 feet in length before construction of the ship. Three berths at the Belfast shipyard had to be modified to accommodate the Titanic and its two sisters ships. The Britannic and the Olympic also across the Atlantic. Modifications had to be made to the pier in New York City harbor to receive these largest ships. The Titanic and its sister ships did not hold the distinction of being the largest ships for long, even though they were eight hundred eighty three feet from bowed to stone.

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By 1934. The luxury cruise ship, the Queen Mary took the honor of being the longest and largest ship. It beat the Titanic length by 136 feet. It was 1019 feet long. That's the equivalent of more than three football fields laid end to end. It was not until the 1990s that another cruise ship was built longer than the Queen Mary. But the current largest ship in the world absolutely dwarfs the Titanic with 18 decks and seven neighborhoods. Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas is the world's largest cruise ship at 1188 feet.

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It's more than 300 feet longer than the Titanic and can house an excess of 5000 more people. Frederick Fleet is a British man who is famous for a very unfortunate reason. Along with fellow lookout, Reginald lay on duty aboard the Titanic when the ship struck the iceberg. It was Fleet who first sighted the iceberg rigging the bridge to proclaim iceberg right ahead. On the evening of April 14th, the Titanic began to approach an area known to have icebergs. The captain slightly altered the ship's course to head farther south.

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However, he maintained the ship's speed of about 22 knots. Fleet and late were stationed in the crow's nest of the Titanic. Their task was made difficult by the fact that the ocean was unusually calm that night because there would be little water breaking at its base. An iceberg will be more difficult to spot. In addition, the Crow's Nest binoculars were missing. Fleet later attested that if they had binoculars, he believed they could have saved the ship. Apparently this information weighed on his spirit because Fleet hanged himself in 1965.

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It turns out fake news has been around for at least 100 years. Upon hearing that the Titanic sank, nearly all news agencies, including the Daily Mail, the Belfast Telegraph and The World, reported that there were no casualties on board in order to maintain calm.

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However, this also gave false hope to the families of the passengers who learned of their friends and families passing in a cruel twist of fate. In Baltimore, the Sun's Evening Sun for April 15th devoted its entire first page to the disaster. Under the good news banner and headlines, all Titanic passengers are safe, transferred in lifeboats at sea. But other newspapers had the same story in New York. The Evening Sun also exalted, all saved from Titanic after collision.

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Some papers even reported that the ship didn't sink. The first paragraph of the Halifax Nova Scotties story states held afloat only by her waterproof compartments. The great white star line of Titanic is slowly crawling toward this harbor. The Oswego Daily Times used a United Press Association story reporting the Titanic was not only afloat, but that her engines were working.