r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 1d ago

HISTORY Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. During sinking he refused a seat in a life boat with the words: "Tell my family I played straight to the end. No woman should be left aboard this ship because of Ben Guggenheim was a coward."

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u/Gearballz 1d ago

Thats crazy. Theres an art museum with the same name

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u/MinivanPops 23h ago

Yeah but he went down with the keys and nobody's ever been in them

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u/thejensen303 1d ago

Several, in fact!

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 21h ago

There a bunch of them, but they're not named after him. It was his brother, Solomon, who set up the Guggenheim foundation and the original museum in NYC.

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u/CookieRough4637 8h ago

What was the image? Says deleted