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TIL After the sinking of the RMS Titanic (1500 lives claimed), a federal law was passed requiring a complete set of lifeboats. The added weight of the new lifeboats caused an already top heavy SS Eastman to rollover killing 844 people while still docked in the Chicago River.

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