Over the last couple of weeks, we have encountered something that is more telling about the state of the children of the world in 2012 than ever before. There are genuine fans of the Titanic movie that actually do not know that the sinking of the Titanic actually happened. Is this not something that is part of the basic history of the human race? How are there even teenagers that do not know that the movie Titanic was based on a real event that happened 100 years ago this month?

Don't believe me? Well, take a look at these very real tweets:

And so on...and so on...and ****ing so on...


The lesson here, kids? PAY ATTENTION IN HISTORY CLASS. You might learn something and not make yourself look like a total dumbass later.

(You can find even more examples of people who didn't know that the Titanic sinking really happened here.)

Its really sad actually.

I know it was a true story since I was a kid.

I knew the story before I even watched the movie... and i was like 8 then

The kids nowadays think everytime is sci-fi I knew about the titanic since I was 7-8 or even more.

Da fuk did I just read
And the OP is a MOD

At least they admitted to being dumbasses.

The Jack and Rose storyline isn't real though.

I am not surprised

It's sad to say that I've seen A LOT worse than this.

I'm still a teen and I know it was real

when I was younger I thought the love story part was real

LoRd

is it really something that is important enough to be taught in school though? I can kind of understand younger people not knowing about it. There is a lot more important things they should be learning about history-wise.

Well he doesn't say himself that he didn't knew.

But this is actually quite.... saddening. I knew about the sinking of the Titanic before I watched that movie.