The Wonderful World of Completely Random Facts — Issue 68

History’s Most Successful Pirate

One of the most successful pirates of all time was a female pirate named Ching Shih, who at one point commanded around 50,000 to 70,000 pirates and 1,200 ships, more ships than the Spanish Armada.

Ching Shih shared or controlled much of the China Sea from 1801 to 1810, but she had humble…