Pirate fact

  • Pirates would pour rum onto gunpowder then light it.

    If the powder lit this was "proof" of a good rum, hense the term proof in alcohol 🍻

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  • Interesting. I saw the other day in a documentary that Blackbeard would actually sprinkle gunpowder into his rum, and drink it in front of people just to further intimidate them. I thought his whole thing of weaving hemp into his beard and lighting it so smoke would billow out from his beard when he went into battle was also pretty cool.

  • Another fun fact about pirates and why they wore eye patches. The eye patch kept one eye ready for low light conditions so when they went from the bright sun to the cabin, they'd flip the eye patch up and could see under the deck.

  • I believe Pirates were also responsible for Dentistry, Prosthetics and certain modes of banking......They also designed their own really cool flags but we already knew that.

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    @d4rk5tar71uk said in Pirate fact:

    Pirates would pour rum onto gunpowder then light it.

    If the powder lit this was "proof" of a good rum, hense the term proof in alcohol 🍻

    have you any proof ?

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