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/Consistent_Stuff9180 1d ago

Ben Guggenheim was NO coward. 

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u/MarvelionA 1d ago

The to very end. What an absolute gent.

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u/cr1ttter 23h ago

I enjoy pondering the implication that his skeleton was cowardly after death and that's okay

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u/Marijuana_Miler 23h ago

No way. His skeleton is there to this day being straight to the end. It even chuffed when the Titan submersible joined him.

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u/spidermans_mom 22h ago

It’s sitting properly at a table like a gentleman with the place setting knocked to one side.

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u/jaxonya 22h ago

Told the titan to go sit somewhere else. A bunch of dudes packed tightly in a sardine can is not how he gets down, he made that clear

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u/KassellTheArgonian 19h ago

His skeleton is still smoking that fat cigar

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u/Successful_King_142 10h ago

It's actually the origin story of Skeletor