Interesting TITANIC trivia

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I thought it might be fun to post some interesting trivia about TITANIC: both the movie and history. Here goes: 1. During the first manned submersible dive to Titanic, the crew got to look at the wreck for only 10 seconds. 2. The last Titanic survivor's body was pulled from the Atlantic in June of 1912; roughly 2 months after the tragedy. 3. The first manned expedition to the Titanic wreck was sponsored by the U.S. Navy. 4. Morgan Robertson's novel, Futility, about a tragic shipwreck, bore amazing similarities to the Titanic tragedy. The ship's name in his novel was Titan. Both sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and like Titanic, the Titan was also struck on its starboard side. Some other stats comparing the two ships are: capacity (3,000), lifeboats (Titan-24, Titanic-20), propellers (3), month of accident (April), time of accident (Titan-near midnight, Titanic-11:40 PM). Robertson's novel was published in 1898, 14 years before Titanic's sinking. 5. The Titanic was never christened. 6. On the night of the disaster, the air temperature was 31F (-6C). 7. Before he became Titanic's captain, E. J. Smith was involved in another serious collision at sea as the captain of Titanic's sister ship, Olympic. 8. There really was a J. Dawson on board Titanic, but he was not a third class passenger. He worked in the boiler room. And his grave can be found in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 10. 57,000 photographs were taken of the Titanic during the first manned submersible mission. 11. Bernard Fox had a role in two different movies about Titanic: 1958's A Night To Remember and 1997's Titanic. 12. Violet Jessop, a Titanic survivor, also survived accidents/disasters on Titanic's two sister ships. 13. Each link in Titanic's anchor chain weighed 175 pounds. 14. Titanic's funnels were large enough for a locomotive to pass through. 15. Titanic's 4th funnel was a fake. It was used as a vent for the kitchen. 16. David Warner, who played Cal's bodyguard, Spicer Lovejoy, in Cameron's 1997 masterpiece also appeared in SOS Titanic as schoolteacher Lawrence Beesley. 17. The Monopoly board game's cartoon mascot...with top hat and droopy mustache...was modeled after J.P. Morgan...the owner of the White Star Line. 18. Celine Dion's TITANIC theme song, My Heart Will Go On, almost didn't make it into TITANIC movie history. Although he was open to the idea, director Cameron didn't think a theme song would be appropriate for a film such as TITANIC. Score composer James Horner secretly met with Celine Dion to record a rough draft of the hit song. Horner then waited for the appropriate time to present it to Cameron, and after listening to it several times and taking time to think it over, James Cameron agreed to use it during the ending credits, and the rest is history.