Interesting Facts About Titanic:

Even when adjusted for inflation, the movie Titanic directed by James Cameroon cost more to make than the original Titanic ship.

Game of Thrones is filmed in the same studio the Titanic was built in, not the movie but the actual RMS Titanic.

Not a single engineer made it off the Titanic. They stayed till their last breath and kept the power on, so others could escape.

A priest on board the Titanic refused a place on a lifeboat twice and stayed behind to hear confessions and give absolution to the people left on the ship.

In 1943, the Nazis also made a film called “Titanic”. It was an anti-British propaganda piece about the famous shipwreck. Royal Air Force bombed the theater it was to be premiered in.

On April 15, 1912 (a day later), a steward, who hadn’t yet heard about the Titanic sinking spotted an iceberg smeared with red paint and snapped a photo of it.

In 1945, the Royal Air Force accidentally sunk a ship full of Holocaust victims. The ship had been used in the Nazi Propaganda film “Titanic”. About 3x more people died in that ship sink than in the actual Titanic. 

Two years after Titanic sank, the ship Empress Of Ireland sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and lost 68.5% of all its passengers (0.5% more than Titanic). The event was buried in the papers because of WWI.

During the filming of the movie Titanic, an angry crew member put PCP in James Cameron’s soup, sending him and 50 others to the hospital.

James Cameron made the movie Titanic just to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make a movie.

A first-class ticket on the Titanic cost $4,375 in 1912 (almost $100,000 today).

A woman named Violet Constance Jessop survived the sinking of the Titanic. Interestingly, she also survived the sinking of its sister ship, the Britannic, and a collision with its third sister ship, the Olympic.

An Australian billionaire has taken efforts to fund the building of a new Titanic cruise ship, which will set out from England in a mere four years; advance ticket sales are soon to follow.

The character in movie Titanic, who drinks from a flask and rides the ship down into the ocean with Jack and Rose, is based on a real person who did that. He survived and thanked the alcohol.

The original founders/owners of Macy’s died on the Titanic and were the old couple in the movie, who went to sleep as the ship went down.