Most will not believe it but the term “bucket list” did not exist until the release of the 2007 film, The Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.
We all believe that we have been using this since ages but that’s not true
We all believe that we have been using this since ages but that’s not true
Reddit confirmed this dumbfounding fact this week, and if you don’t believe them ,as did Oxford English Dictionary, who agree that the phrase was “popularized by the title of the film.”
Our collective blackout around the origins of “bucket list” is one instance of the Mandela Effect—a phenomenon that occurs when large groups of people are convinced something happened when it never took place.
The concept was introduced more than a decade ago, when internet users distinctly recalled Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s. But in fact he was still alive at the time; he passed away in 2013.
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