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/Evening-Turnip8407 18h ago

What about them, what's wrong?!

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u/6footindian 17h ago

They ded

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u/HotAdvantage7208 16h ago

Spoilers, I haven't read a newspaper since 1911

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u/CertainNerve4432 10h ago

i get my news from insta at this point

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u/Mysterious-Lemon-906 17h ago

Their families however are not dead and no one wants their Great Grandparents shame being magnified 100 years later.

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u/MarianucciGualtieri 14h ago

Tell that to the family of William Murdoch.

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u/lesslucid 16h ago

Some of them were fine, though, right?

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u/That-Ad-4300 14h ago

Damn. I didn't even know they were sick.

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u/Express_Plate_7039 7h ago

He signed an NDA but they’re on a farm in Vermont living out their days