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Join Date: Mar 2017
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What's a pirate without an eye patch? Yet the reason they were so prevalent among the outlaws may surprise you. It wasn't to cover a missing or injured eye; rather pirates wore the patch to train the covered eye to see better in the dark, giving them a tactical advantage when they ran below-decks to fight.
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