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Originally Posted by Walker De Plank
Oh and to the person who suggested some form of eye loss and patch gained from that, there is a common misconception that pirates wore patches because they lost an eye. They actually wore them so they could adjust one of their eyes to see better at night. The eye patch would block the sunlight from one of their eyes and they would just be staring at this black patch all day with said eye. At night, they would take the patch off. From being accustomed to the black of the patch, the pirate would be better able to see with that eye at night. I believe they did this on Mythbusters. Gotta love that show, lol.
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You are correct...Mythbusters did do a show on this...
This trick was also used for pilots who had an eye dominance problem...was actually comically shown in the movie Fire Birds with Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones...