Pirate Fact

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Spotted on a Nobby Crisps packet (Balti Chicken flavour):

Lesson 7
(Eyepatch Facts)

Most pirates had two perfectly good eyes. By wearing an eyepatch at all times, the covered eye would become highly sensitive, making it ideal to navigate at night using the stars.

Modern day soldiers are taught a similar night vision technique during basic training, to assist them when training under cover of darkness.

So now you know!

Going through 2 Gb's worth of photos and will FlickR them this week as well as update the blog on what we actually did.