Lost Photos of the Titanic and The Stories Behind Them

The Stacks

The Titanic had four large stacks on top of the ship. This was to help ventilate the smoke from the furnaces through these funnels. When the water began to get into the ship, the firemen panicked about the reaction of the ice-cold water and the boiling hot furnaces. An explosion was avoided because they acted quickly to vent as much steam as possible from these stacks.

Advertisement

Next Page →

The More You Know

  • Dentistry is the oldest profession in the world.
  • Your heart beats 100,000 times a day.
  • In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
  • When Boris Yeltsin met President Clinton in 1995, his first question was "Do you think O.J. did it?"
Next Page →