Alamin ang nakakakilabot na sikreto ng titanic na hindi pa nalalaman ng lahat

Here are some creepy, amazing and extra ordinary facts about Titanic that not most of people know.

The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912 — 109 years ago, with an estimated number of 1,517 people dead.

Long years after the tragic incident, a lot of things are still ye to be unvieled.

According to Insider:

1. Actress Dorothy Gibson, who was aboard the Titanic and survived, starred in a film called “Saved From the Titanic,” which was released just one month after the ship sank.

2. Another survivor, Lawrence Beesley, tried to crash the filming of the 1958 film “A Night to Remember” because he wanted to symbolically go down with the ship.

3. The 700 third-class passengers had to share two bathtubs.

4. One of the ship’s musicians wasn’t officially declared dead until 2000.

5. The ship’s band played music right until the very end to try and calm passengers.

6. The ship’s lookouts had to rely on their eyesight alone — the ship’s binoculars were locked inside a cabinet that no one could find the key to.

7. It is likely that the crew didn’t spot the iceberg in time because they didn’t have binoculars.

8. At the memorial of Frederick Fleet — one of the lookouts — a prankster left a pair of binoculars with a note reading “Sorry for bringing these 100 years too late.”

9. The Titanic was plagued by tragedy from the start. Eight people died during the ship’s construction.

10. The richest man aboard was John Jacob Astor IV, who was widely believed to have been the richest man in the world at the time of his death.

Der Untergang der Titanic

11. Multiple newspapers mistakenly reported that the crash caused no fatalities, including the Daily Mail, the Belfast Telegraph, and The World.

12. A woman who survived the Titanic’s sinking later survived the sinking of another ship: the Britannic.

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