Top 7 unbelievable historical concurrencies

Titanic sank the same year that the drug "ecstacy" was first synthesized

The Titanic was a passenger liner that collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage in 1912. She was the largest ship afloat in the world at the time and over 1500 people died in the accident. Infamously, the Titanic carried only slightly more than half the number of lifeboats needed for everyone on board and many of those boats were not filled to capacity during the disaster.

Ecstasy is the street name for the drug MDMA. While this chemical was first synthesized in 1912, it was simply documented as a by-product of another process. It was only investigated sporadically over the next few decades. It is thought that MDMA first began to be used as a recreational drug around 1970. Scientists began to study it more closely, hoping that it could find use as a psychotherapy aid. However, MDMA was made illegal in the United States in 1985, the same year that the wreck of the Titanic was re-discovered on the ocean floor.