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TIL The Titanic had a much more successful sister ship called the “Olympic”. It was the only merchant ship to sink an enemy warship during World War I, after it turned around and rammed a submarine that had tried to torpedo it. The sub sank after it was gashed open by one of the Olympic’s propellers

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