Some little-known facts about the Titanic:
- Just imagine, it took almost 73 years to find the wreck of the Titanic. The image below shows the remaining plate debris from the Titanic wreck.
2. The Titanic was as tall as an eleven-story building and nearly as long as four city blocks, making it one of the largest ships in the world.
3. Millvina Dean (1912-2009) was only a few months old when she boarded the Titanic with her family. She was the youngest victim of the accident.
4. The estimated age of the first snowflakes that formed the iceberg the Titanic hit was 15,000 years old.
5. None of the 30 technicians on board survived. They remained on board to keep the power running as long as possible so that others could escape.
6. The Titanic carried 64 lifeboats, each capable of carrying 20 people. Most of the lifeboats were not even filled to capacity.
7. The richest passenger on the Titanic was John Jacob Astor IV. His net worth was about $85 million, or two billion dollars today. Astor perished with the Titanic.
8. With a production cost of 200 million dollars , this film cost more than Titanic itself.
9. The Titanic's shipbuilders, Harland and Wolff, insist that the Titanic was never touted as unsinkable as it was in the film. They claim that the 'unsinkable' myth was a result of people's interpretation of articles in The Irish News and The Shipbuilder magazine. They also claim that the myth arose after the disaster.
10. First class tickets varied widely in price, ranging from $150 (about $1,700 today) for a simple bed, to $4,350 (about $50,000 today) for one of the two Parlor suites. Second class tickets were $60 (about $700) and third class passengers paid between $15 and $40 ($170 - $460).
11. Hitting an iceberg wasn't the only reason the Titanic sank.
To make it clearer, a 30-foot line mark is visible on the ship, just in front of the coal bunker room. The area where the mark is located is also the area where the ship hit the iceberg. This leads experts to believe that the fire must have damaged the area first, then the iceberg caused further damage.
12. Jack and Rose may be fictional characters, but their story was partly inspired by real Titanic passengers Henry Samuel Morley and Kate Florence Phillips.
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