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I solved the century-old mystery of a shipwreck survivor

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94 points Thevet | 1 comments | 12 Jul 25 22:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.345s | source
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windowshopping ◴[15 Jul 25 03:11 UTC] No.44567533[source]▶
He says near the beginning that only 832 people died on Titanic, which is plainly untrue and made me stop reading because I felt I could no longer trust anything the author was saying without fact checking it. I mean that's a really basic thing to get wrong.
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1. anonymous_user9 ◴[15 Jul 25 03:24 UTC] No.44567588[source]▶
That's the number of passenger deaths, not total deaths. It's pretty close to the sum of passenger deaths in the wikipedia article on the Titanic [1], 818. According to that article, the total death count is unclear, so the discrepancy seems acceptable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic#Survivors_and_victims