Researchers are now saying that the iceberg that RMS Titanic hit, causing it to sink on April 14, 1912, was a whopping 100,000 years old! According to experts, the massive block of ice responsible for sinking the ocean liner had probably originated in southwest Greenland.

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Expert Grant Bigg of Sheffield University, UK, collected data from 1912 observations and combined it with modern information on ocean currents and winds. Then, using a computer model, he was able to figure out an iceberg's path in any given year. As reported by Sunday Times, Bigg said, "We take what we know about ocean currents, then add in meteorological readings for that year to calculate the prevailing winds."

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The iceberg, that weighed 75m tonnes and measured 1,700 feet in length had reduced in strength at the time it sank the Titanic. Bigg said that the iceberg measured only 400 feet and 1.5m tonnes in 1912.

He also said that 1912 was a "bad year" as many icebergs were seen floating way off course, toward the south. Another theory illustrates how the iceberg may have broken from its parent in 1908 and floated further south into the much colder winter of 1911-1912.

Now that a new Titanic is being made ready to set sail, we hope that no iceberg floats its way toward it.