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How a baker survived the Titanic by getting spectacularly drunk
Tristin Hopper - 44m ago
It was 110 years ago tonight that RMS Titanic struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and foundered in just two hours and 40 minutes. The sinking would condemn more than 1,500 to die in the frigid North Atlantic, but someone conspicuously not among the dead that night was the ship’s chief baker Charles Joughin, who survived history’s worst maritime disaster by getting incredibly soused. To learn more, watch the Everything Should Be Better video, read the transcript below, or scroll down further for a more complete account of Joughin’s incredible tale of booze-soaked survival.
It was an almost physiologically impossible feat of survival. And according to the British Titanic inquiry, it was because the 33-year-old Englishman had the presence of mind to greet history’s greatest maritime disaster by getting smashed. To be sure, a good rule of thumb is that a drunk man will usually freeze to death faster than a sober man.
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