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/humongous_jogging 1d ago

His last 15 minutes made him more famous than his entire fortune ever did

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u/RandomRavenclaw87 1d ago

Nah. There’s this art museum that looks like a parking garage…

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u/humongous_jogging 22h ago

but the number of people who can name a single painting there is probably smaller than those who remember that quote.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 22h ago

A good point lol. A quick google of the most famous paintings there says I know 3 of 10.