20 Interesting Facts about Pirates

 They did not walk the plank.

Many believe that pirates made their hostages walk the plank as a torture method. However, it seems the act was mostly made up by fiction writers. Real pirates preferred to kill their hostages straight away.Even if they did choose to torture them, they adopted other methods like marooning the prisoner on a deserted island, keelhauling (tying a person to the back of the ship and dragging them along), or lashing them with a leather whip.