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little-orphan-ant · 2 years

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Just the fact that I know too much about specific parts of the Titanic but not any of the important stuff. Like I can tell you all the languages Michel Navratil spoke or exactly what happened to Karl Thorsten Skoog in one day in 1908 or why Harold Bride messed up the whole story of how the orchestra played 'Nearer My God to Thee' going down or Alfred Rush's birthday but half the time I can't remember the year the ship sank

#1. slovak hungarian french english and some italian #2. at 7yo he was bringing his dad's lunch to the mine where he worked and tried to hop a train to get there faster but it didnt work and #he got hit by the train and had to have his left leg and the toes on his right foot amputated #3. basically everyone except Harry-Boy agrees on the song they were playing but the Harry's like #and they probably were playing this french song that Harry knew bc he's British but the New York Times didnt bc theyre New Yorkers called #'Songe d'Automne' which i listened to and it slaps #4. april 14. he died the day after he turned 16 #he was offered a place in the lifeboat but refused saying hed stay with the men #5. it was 1912. i keep thinking it was 1911 #eli's semi coherent thoughts #not les mis

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