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TIL that four years after the RMS Titanic sunk, its sister ship, the RMS Britannic, also sunk after striking a German mine. Then, in 1918, the RMS Carpathia - known as the the ship that rescued the Titanic’s survivors, also sunk after being torpedoed by a German submarine.

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