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The band played "Nearer My God To Thee" as the ship was sinking.
The Titanic cost 7.5 million dollars (1912 dollars) to build.
The Titanic was a monstrous 882.5 feet in length and weighed a whopping 52,310 long tons!
The Titanic's final resting place is 12,500 feet below the ocean surface, 350 miles southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
The Titanic was just one of three ships conceived by the White Star Line that would be at the height of comfort and speed. The White Star Line called the other two ships The Olympic and The Britannic.
Because of the immenseness of the ship, the Titanic's maiden voyage was delayed from March 20 to April 10, 1912.
There were three real smokestacks, the fourth being a "dummy" stack to add to its size. The fourth stack also was used to vent smoke from the ships many galleys.
The ship was able to sustain 3,500 passengers. On its maiden voyage it had 2,228 passengers, yet only had lifeboat capacity for 1,178 people.
The third class, or steerage, cabins boasted indoor toilet facilities that some of the steerage passengers had not enjoyed in their own homes!
The ship had not one, but two full musical ensembles, a squash court, swimming pool and gymnasium.
The ship cruised at 22 knots (around 25 miles per hour).
The day the Titanic sunk, it received its sixth ice warning by wireless telegraph.
Out of the 2,228 people on the Titanic, only 710 people survived.
After the ship sank, 337 bodies were found in the wreckage, 128 bodies were buried at sea, and many others were buried in Halifax, Canada.
Sir Arthur Rostron, Captain of the RMS Carpathia, was given a medal of honor for sailing through 58 miles of packed ice to pick up survivors of the Titanic.
As many as 549 out of 1,518 people who died on the Titanic were from Southampton, UK.
The iceberg struck the Titanic on its starboard side (front and right side).
The hull was divided into 16 watertight compartments, making the builders sure that she was "unsinkable."
The Titanic was rediscovered in two pieces on September 1, 1985.
On the night that the Titanic sank the seawater was a frigid -2 degrees celsius.
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