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TIL some words have no (or very uncommon) positive forms. Examples: disgruntled, incognito, feckless

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WBnL TIL that North Korea hijacked a commercial aircraft, abducted the passengers and never returned 11 of them
D1kjV TIL, medieval surgeons in England used complicated surgeries learnt from the Arabs including jaw-reconstruction
gMZVy TIL that when the host of "Candid Camera" Allen Funt was on a flight that was highjacked, passengers recognized him and thought the it was all just a joke for the show. Despite his insistence that the hijacking was real, no one believed him until the plane landed in Cuba.
B4DD TIL the burial site of Genghis Khan has still not been found. The funeral escort allegedly killed anyone and anything that could haves witnessed the location of the emperor’s final resting place. The slaves that built the tomb were also slaughtered, as were the soldiers that murdered them..
naJW TIL Genghis Khan may have been killed by an arrow to the knee