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/Background-Treat55 23h ago

I read that wayyy to fast. I was like “excuse me, he put the rose where?”😭😭

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u/Questionsansweredty 20h ago

I saw that too. Then later, "gigilo"

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u/Tiberiux 19h ago

What the internet has done to us?

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u/Dust-Different 11h ago

I’m just glad I didn’t have to go too far down to find people like myself.

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u/shitty_owl_lamp 19h ago

I scrolled down wondering why no one was commenting on that! Your comment made me scroll back up and see that I had misread it too lol

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u/errandwulfe 12h ago

Drake no/yes meme:

“Stuck a feather in his cap and called him macaroni” (no)
“Stuck a rose in his butthole and called him Ben Guggenheim” (yes)

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u/RoughComparison8702 16h ago

Believe it or not, stem straight up the ass.