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TIL about the movie "Saved from the Titanic," released just 31 days after the disaster. It starred an actress who'd been aboard the ship and wore the clothes she'd worn the night it sank. Reportedly traumatized by reliving the tragedy, she quit acting soon after. The film was lost in a 1914 fire.

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