🥷
💡
💡 Fun Facts
💡

Annie Robinson, a stewardess who had been aboard the Titanic when it sank, experienced such severe post-traumatic stress disorder that she threw herself into the ocean from the SS Devonian three years later, after being triggered by the sound of the vessel s whistle.

•1 min read


Fun Fact:

Annie Robinson, a stewardess who had been aboard the Titanic when it sank, experienced such severe post-traumatic stress disorder that she threw herself into the ocean from the SS Devonian three years later, after being triggered by the sound of the vessel’s whistle.

Source favicon

Source

encyclopedia-titanica.org

Share this fascinating fact! 🥷

Share on XDiscover more facts

💡More Fun Facts

Keep exploring and learning

Professional wrestler Scott Hall was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, years after killing a man in self defense. Hall wrestled away the drunken man’s gun, and shot him in the head, outside of Hall’s place of work.

Read →

Gulf War Syndrome is thought to be caused by exposure to sarin gas, rather than being linked to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Read →

A study proposed that the Curse of One Rabbit of the Aztec calendar cycle, which was believed to bring famine and disaster in the first year of the 52 year cycle, had a real climatic basis. This was supported by the fact that 10 out of the 13 years in the cycle experienced famine, with one of them being one of the most severe famines in world prehistory.

Read →

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.

Read →

of the Empress of Ireland. Although the ship was equipped with watertight compartments and, in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster two years earlier, carried more than enough lifeboats for all onboard, she foundered in only fourteen minutes. Of the 1,477 people on board, 1,012 died .

Read →

In 1575, Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, and his brother Rodrigo were taken captive by Barbary Pirates and held as slaves. After two years, his family was only able to pay the ransom for one of them, so Rodrigo was released. Cervantes was not freed until three years later when a religious charity paid his ransom.

Read →
Explore All Fun Facts