stackyFACTSYou think your modern flight delay is bad?
You think your modern flight delay is bad? Try navigating a square-rigged commercial ship around Cape Horn in the 1800s. The mortality rate was so comically high that sailors would get a gold hoop earring specifically to pay for their funeral expenses if their bloated corpse washed ashore. Surviving the journey earned you the right to put one foot on the table while eating, which frankly seems like a garbage reward for not drowning in freezing, 60-foot waves.
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