Lost Photos of the Titanic and The Stories Behind Them

The Orchestra

The film did not fabricate the orchestra playing during the sinking. They did their best to keep the passengers calm by playing some of their most upbeat songs. It's unclear what their final song was, but some rumors say it was the only "sad" song from the set. These men were rallied as heroes. 

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The More You Know

  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
  • The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
  • A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
  • The first pair of Nike running shoes was made in a waffle iron.
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