I forgot who but like a century ago a guy went to go buy chicken for his wife but he forgot and went drinking at a tavern instead. He did still buy the chicken but he came home wasted and his wife locked him out of the house to sober up lol so he's outside at night, in December, in negative temperatures just cuz he got blackout drunk and guess what happened? He watched the chicken freeze and preserve itself, so he was technically the first person to come up with the idea of preserving food in ice for longer periods of time- but his wife forgot he was outside overnight and he contracted pneumonia and died LMFAO random but this comment reminded me of that
Okay so basically (still don't remember names but) a privateer - pirate in old talk- decided to go with his crew and take some cows from another country to get some profit instead of going after some treasure. The guy gets a herd of cattle onto his boat and sets off to sell them before the navy comes to arrest him. But on the way, he asks one of his crew to go and check on them, only to learn that they were seasick and were vomiting everywhere lol then the crewmate gets sick, but he's ordered to go back to check on them after a while but their seasickness got worse and you could say it was.. flooded. Then the captain spotted a navy ship and instead of maneuvering to get away from them, he flags them down to come and arrest him. But lo and behold, the navy captain notices something's up when the captain was being super submissive to getting arrested and checked below deck, finding the cows vomiting everywhere lmao so he revoked his arrest and went back to his navy boat cuz that privateer's boat stank too bad and he thought staying on that ship would've been worse than facing jail time those poor cows
Okay so this fact's a little bit less obscure but it's another one about pirates (you may know the following). Pirates, or privateers, were known as the pillagers of the sea but they were actually quite civilised on their ship and to each other. Matters were handled democratically (i.e. they voted on certain things), they never fought on Sundays and they mostly never fought with each other. Their bedtime was always at 8 or 9pm sharp and if they managed to get loot on that day, it was shared equally among everyone. If you were a pirate on a ship and you failed to adhere to these rules, you'd be marooned on a desert island with no foliage or wildlife- just a bottle of rum and a pistol loaded with one shot. So you could choose your fate- you could either starve and thirst yourself to your inevitable demise, or you could end it with a blow to the head. Queen Elizabeth I used to have pirates who'd work for her to take products from other countries and ship them back to England for a hefty profit or to grow new sustenance. The privateers eventually evolved into the modern day navy.
he has to know that's him or I'm going to beat his ass and lock him out the house