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QJdO6 TIL the saying "to work up an appetite" originated from back when people would become hungry as the result of physical labor AND THEN consume food. Wow, the more you know! These days, I've just been saying, "Man, I really jerked up the ability to binge-eat an entire carrot cake."
D1xmp TIL of the Contranym, which is a word that has two contradicting definitions. Ex. Shelled means both having a shell and stripped of a shell