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Joseph Dawson was a passenger on the Titanic in real life. In the movie Leonardo DiCaprio played Jack Dawson but the director found out that there was actually a J. Dawson that was a passenger on the titanic, J stands for Joseph but they just changed it to Jack for the movie.

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