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TIL that there was an organized effort to recover dead bodies from the Titanic sinking. Over 300 were recovered, and 4 ships were chartered by the White Star Line for the purpose of corpse recovery. The Mackay-Bennett, for example, recovered 306 bodies, 116 buried at sea. only 56 were identified

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