The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 tragically took hundreds of lives. However one man we can all be thankful wasn't killed on the iceburg-prone ship was chocolate extraordinaire, Milton Hershey. Hershey was due to take the ill-fated Titanic home from France however urgent business forced him to take an earlier vessel: the Amerika. Luckily this sub-plot never made its way into James Cameron's movie.