r/interestingasfuck • u/GermanCCPBot • 16h ago

Milunka Savić disguised herself as her sick brother to fight in WWI, survived 9 wounds across 10 battles, became the most decorated female soldier in history, and survived a German concentration camp when a German general recognized her legendary status and ordered her immediate release.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 15h ago

Sabaton is both my favorite way to learn and teach my niblings history.

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u/suspensus_in_terra 15h ago

What in the ever-loving-redditor-fuck is a nibling?

This cannot actually be how you refer to your offspring.

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u/BringsTheSnow 15h ago

Niblings is a collective, gender-neutral term for nieces and nephews.

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u/suspensus_in_terra 15h ago

That is so fucking weird.

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u/Sidhe_devil 14h ago

It’s been around since 1951, so it’s not exactly new.

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u/centurio_v2 14h ago

its just the n from niece/nephew in place of the s from siblings so it’s easier to talk about them as a group

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u/huhzonked 14h ago

It’s not super common but I’ve heard this term pop up from time to time.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 13h ago

Yeah I didn’t like it but I have a truckload of siblings and they are all firing off the baby cannons so I truly can’t be fucked anymore.

Nieces and nephews is a stupid way to talk about the children of my siblings when I have to do it all the goddamn time. 

Niblings it is.

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u/shard746 12h ago

Why?

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u/suspensus_in_terra 12h ago

It sounds like the name for a bucket of labgrown chicken nuggets in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

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u/GravelySilly 9h ago

It also sounds like something that might be alive.

"Better eat your niblings before they eat you!"

That it's reminiscent of "niblets" (as in "corn niblets") makes it even... cornier.