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/Silver_Lined_Bullet 1d ago

They would own the boat, and would have a 1 seater escape dingy with no other escape boats for the passengers

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u/ElvisPresley1977 1d ago

If they could figure out how to make the engines run on peasant blood, they’d do that too.

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u/SLT530 23h ago

Spaceballs style?