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TIL that the lookout who first spotted the iceberg that sank the Titanic survived the sinking and went on to serve in the merchant navy in WWI and WWII. Shortly after Christmas in 1964, at the age of 77, his wife died, he was evicted from his house and he hanged himself.

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