In the grand scheme of world history, Brexit is meaningless. Compared to other economic and political events, such as WWII, the Great Depression, and slavery, Brexit is nothing.
But that doesn't mean the markets didn't misprice the meaningless event. I simply took advantage of it. Leave wasn't priced in and traders don't know how to evaluate it. Remain would have been a small scale sell the news event. Either way, the market was going down and I would make money. Yes--I was lucky in that I caught the bigger of the two drops.