Top 10 Surprising Facts About Pirates

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Pirates have fascinated the masses for hundreds of years. Romanticized in fiction, the image of a pirate has crystallized into a bearded, peg-legged man, with a funny hat and possibly a parrot on his shoulder. The pirate was almost relegated to a quaint decades-old obsession until Disney revived the swashbucklers by rebooting a Disneyland ride into a multi-billion dollar movie franchise. The films star Johnny Depp, pretending to be Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, or as Roger Ebert once wrote, “channeling a drunken drag queen, with his eyeliner and the way he minces ashore and slurs his dialogue ever so insouciantly.” • →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenzn... • Help us translate our videos: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_... - Learn more why you might want to help: https://support.google.com/youtube/an... • Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net • Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! • Subscribe to our Facebook: / toptenz • Business inquiries to [email protected] • Other TopTenz Videos: • Top 10 HORRIFYING Facts about PIRATES • • Top 10 HORRIFYING Facts about PIRATES • Top 10 FEARSOME PIRATE SHIPS • • Top 10 FEARSOME PIRATE SHIPS • Text version: http://www.toptenz.net/10-surprising-... • Coming up: • 10. Pirates Were Part of the Normal Economy • 9. Wore Jewelry to Improve Their Eyesight • 8. Pirate Ships Were Democratic • 7. Pirate Health Insurance • 6. Pirates Raided Only Ships… Or Not • 5. Pirates Are Not Forever • 4. Pirate Tropes • 3. Cannonballs are Spheres of Death • 2. Pirates Aren’t a Relatively Recent, Caribbean Thing • 1. Pirates Still Exist • Source/Further reading: • https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=O... • http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/v... • http://mentalfloss.com/article/53397/... • http://news.nationalgeographic.com/20... • http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryofthewor... • https://www.merriam-webster.com/dicti... • https://www.britannica.com/biography/... • http://www.history.com/news/ask-histo... • • Black Pearl Fires Cannons • http://mythresults.com/episode71 • http://www.ancient.eu/Sea_Peoples/ • http://content.time.com/time/specials... • http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/17/afr... • http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-... • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... • https://myliveactiondisneyproject.fil... • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... • https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/03... • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... • http://www.catgossip.com/wp-content/u... • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... • http://images.ciatr.jp/2017/06/w_828/... • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... • http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/... • https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5537/14... • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... • http://www.deskovehry.com/fotky/raidi... • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... • • Brethren Court pieces of eight scene • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...

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