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that in 1912, after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, crewmen on its sister ship RMS Olympic went on strike over its small number and poor quality of lifeboats

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Fun Fact: that in 1912, after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, crewmen on its sister ship RMS Olympic went on strike over its small number and poor quality of lifeboats

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that Captain Smith of the Titanic disaster (15 April 1912) was the Captain of the Olympic when she collided with a warship (20 Sep 1911). Olympic was the sister ship of Titanic and the repairs from the collision, back in Belfast, actually delayed Titanic’s maiden voyage from 20 March to 10 April

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less than a month after the Titanic sank, its nearly identical sister ship, the Olympic, saw its crew refuse to work because it held insufficient and unseaworthy life boats. Instead of purchasing new life boats, the White Star Line fired the workers.

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The second officer of the Titanic (Charles Lightoller), who survived by swimming from the sinking ship to a capsized raft, later in life sailed his civilian craft to Dunkirk (France) and saved/evacuated about 130 people in WW2.

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of the Empress of Ireland. Although the ship was equipped with watertight compartments and, in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster two years earlier, carried more than enough lifeboats for all onboard, she foundered in only fourteen minutes. Of the 1,477 people on board, 1,012 died .

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Karoly Takacs, a Hungarian Army shooter, had his dominant hand destroyed in a grenade blast months before the olympic games. Despite this, he trained himself to shoot with his left hand and went on to win the Hungarian National Pistol Shooting Championship in 1939, as well as Gold medals in the 1948 and 1952 olympics.

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