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TIL in Titanic, Jack and Rose could both have survived if Rose took off her lifejacket and put it under the plank. It wasn’t a question of room, but buoyancy, and the lifejacket would have given the needed buoyancy for them both to survive. Some ingenuity would have saved them.

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