Originating in the 16th century, a “rum bubber” was a thief who specialized in stealing silver tankards from inns and pubs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Fraser’s Phrases: It’s A Rum Do | Anglophenia | BBC America
Originating in the 16th century, a “rum bubber” was a thief who specialized in stealing silver tankards from inns and pubs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Fraser’s Phrases: It’s A Rum Do | Anglophenia | BBC America
The movie term “blockbuster” was originally a military term to describe bombs in WW2 that could destroy an entire city block. Thus, it first entered the American lexicon as a metaphor for something explosive and shocking before becoming associated with movie success. – WTF Fun Facts
“Guerrilla grafting” is the illegal process of turning city maintained sterile fruit trees into fruiting trees by splicing compatible branches onto the sterile trees with branches from fruiting trees. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Guerrilla Grafters Bring Forbidden Fruit Back To City Trees : The Salt : NPR
The word “poltergeist” comes from the German words poltern (“to make sound” and “to rumble”) and Geist (“ghost” and “spirit”), thus it literally translates as the term itself translates as “noisy ghost” or “loud spirit”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Poltergeist – Wikipedia
“Vranyo” is Russian for telling a bold-faced lie which you do not expect anyone to believe. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: “Vranyo”: a previously untranslatable Russian word … – Glossophilia
“Autothysis” (or suicidal altruism) is the process where an animal destroys itself via an internal rupturing or explosion of an organ which ruptures the skin. Some species of termites and ants use this process to defend their colonies.– WTF Fun Facts
In Sweden, millennials are known as the “Curling Generation,” named for the sport in which teammates sweep the ice in front of their stone to guide its journey. Likewise, the parents of millennials have swept away any obstacles from their children’s paths. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Generation Y, Curling or Maybe: what the world calls millennials | World news | The Guardian
The depression on the front of the elbow or at the flexure of the arm is called the chelidon. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Chelidon Definition and Examples – Biology Online Dictionary
“Loganamnosis” is a word to describe an obsession with recalling a specific word that has been forgotten. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: loganamnosis – Wiktionary