10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Titanic The sinking of the
infamous RMS Titanic in 1912 has gone down (no pun intended) as
the most famous ocean liner disaster in history, thanks in part
to popular culture’s take on the topic from the 1958 Roy Ward
Baker film ‘A Night to Remember’ to James Cameron’s legendary
blockbuster ‘Titanic.’ And yet the legend surrounding this
infamous boat (and the 1,500-plus people it took down with it)
has surpassed some of the actual events that transpired in the
icy North Atlantic Ocean. Here are a few things you might not
know about the Titanic. 1. It almost crashed into another boat
before it sunk There are numerous facets of the ship’s
construction and funding that could have prevented it from
becoming the massive tragedy that it was, but one incident
could’ve stopped it from ever seeing an iceberg. A few days
before the accident, the Titanic left its port from the
Southampton docks where it almost collided with its sister ship,
the New York. While the suction in the water