Current: June 1, 2011

• … that Ian McShane has portrayed another pirate besides Blackbeard? He voiced Captain Hook in the Shrek series.

• … that the name for Sao Feng's navigational charts is the Mao Kun Map?

• … that the Sunset, the real world ship that portrayed the Black Pearl in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, portrayed the Queen Anne's Revenge in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides?

• … that USA Network has the cable broadcasting rights for the first three Pirates films?

• … that Ian McShane's Blackbeard had temporarily replaced Bill Nighy's Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland and Disney World?

• … that Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio wrote the first draft for the first Pirates of the Caribbean film in the 1990s?

Upcoming Did You Knows

• …that Johnny Depp and Stephen Graham appeared together in the 2009 film Public Enemies?

• …that Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom is a prequel novel to the Pirates of the Caribbean series?

• …that Blackbeard's real name is Edward Teach?

• …that Keira Knightley started filming Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl when she was 17 years old?

• …that Treasure Island is another Disney film about Pirates, based on the novel of the same name?

Previous Did You Knows

September 7, 2007

• …that "Walk the Plank" is a soundtrack cue credited to Klaus Badelt?

• … that Saving Jack Sparrow is an adaption of At World's End focusing on William Turner?

• … that Jack Sparrow sacked Nassau without firing a single shot?

• …that John Brown owned a smithy in Port Royal?

• … that At World's End was first released on May 22 in Kuwait and Bahrain?

• … that The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923?

August 26, 2007

• … that Thomas Faye authored The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company?

• … that the RMS Manowar was the British Royal Navy flagship in 1630?

• … that Dodo's Perch was an island in the Caribbean Sea?

• … that to the east of Port Royal lies Crooked Cove?

• … that Dylan Smith portrayed the young William Turner?

• … that Poisedon's Peak is the eleventh Jack Sparrow Young Readers book?

July/August 2007

• … that The Devil's Throat was the perilous passage leading to Shipwreck Cove?

• … that Dulac once attempted to betray Jack Sparrow and steal his treasure for himself?

• … that a bride auction took place at La Cantina on Isla Tesoro?

• … that Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann were marooned on Rumrunners' Island?

• … that Takayo Fischer portrayed the blind Pirate Lord, Mistress Ching?

• … that Carlos was the magistrate of Isla Tesoro?

• … that the Albion was a British military sloop escorted by Nathaniel Hawk?