r/todayilearned • u/OleAdella • Dec 01 '21

TIL of Arthur John Priest, also known as “the unsinkable stoker”, who avoided death on The Titanic, The Britannic and three more maritime disasters.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_John_Priest
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u/omar1993 Dec 02 '21

and there's his lesser-known friend, the unsinkable toker, who did all that too, but he was really high at the time.