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TIL After the Titanic disaster, White Star Line equipped her identical sister ship, Olympic, with extra second-hand collapsible lifeboats, many of which were unseaworthy. Many of the ships crew went on strike in protest, so White Star Line prosecuted them with Mutiny, and hired an inexperience crew

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kJak5 TIL about the Massacre of the Latins, which occurred in Constantinople in 1182. The massacre was a result of the presence of Western merchants, particularly Italians, and various other factors. The Orthodox population killed tens of thousands of Catholics, with 4,000 survivors being sold as slaves.
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