Facts About The Titanic That You've Never Heard Before. #7 Blew My Mind

#1. Only one ocean liner in history has been sunk by an iceberg: Titanic.



#2. One of the most emotional moments of the Titanic film is when the band members continue playing to calm down the passengers. And this ACTUALLY happened. They played for hours after the ship hit the iceberg.


#3. The four smokestacks that have become so famous, and associated with the ship? The fourth one didn't even work! It was totally just for decoration.


#4. If the iceberg had been seen only 30 seconds before it was, and the Captain was notified, the accident could have been avoided.


#5. The infamous iceberg that brought the Titanic to her knees has been floating around since around 1,000 B.C.


#6. More than half of the lifeboats on the ship were not filled to capacity.


#7. There was a Japanese survivor who escaped the ship. But when he returned to Japan, he was shamed, and told he should have gone down with the ship.


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