Top 10 Surprising Facts About Pirates

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/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Help us translate our videos: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_queue?msg=10&tab=0 - Learn more why you might want to help: http://ift.tt/1l7FnjV Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Subscribe to our Facebook: http://ift.tt/1QRrRgJ Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Other TopTenz Videos: Top 10 HORRIFYING Facts about PIRATES https://youtu.be/w2VpRixxIMs?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnKajPA6HFawry8Y3my_VX5Q Top 10 FEARSOME PIRATE SHIPS https://youtu.be/hhdJ1gUSCK0?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnKajPA6HFawry8Y3my_VX5Q Text version: http://ift.tt/2qOtUK1 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: http://ift.tt/2w0vJIU http://ift.tt/2uAbKxr http://ift.tt/16MFjsy http://ift.tt/1S3e7gb http://ift.tt/1B1fDIl http://ift.tt/2uAwGo2 http://ift.tt/2w0uV7c http://ift.tt/1WG7i8i https://youtu.be/uL0324ZLTDA http://ift.tt/2w0uU38 http://ift.tt/1FODlLo http://ift.tt/1maUF4j http://ift.tt/2mNHhXP http://ift.tt/2ri4KUv http://ift.tt/2uA9WnV http://ift.tt/2w0m3ON http://ift.tt/2uAxwB5 http://ift.tt/2w0lcxE http://ift.tt/2uAnz6x http://ift.tt/2w0vL3z http://ift.tt/2uAxb1j http://ift.tt/2w0uOsg http://ift.tt/2uAukFy http://ift.tt/2w0CSZV http://ift.tt/2uAenPK http://ift.tt/2w0mgS1 http://ift.tt/2uAny2t http://ift.tt/2w0yRVg http://ift.tt/2uAxc5n http://ift.tt/2w0CU3Z http://ift.tt/2uAaFFW http://ift.tt/2w0ugTd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8xqxFfyWd4 http://ift.tt/2uAVmwy