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.”

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Woodes-Rogers
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/did-pirates-really-bury-their-treasure
https://youtu.be/uL0324ZLTDA
http://mythresults.com/episode71
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