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TIL Legend of the Chambered is a game series created by Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft. Notch reused many item textures from the 2008 version of Legend of the Chambered in Minecraft.

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v1x17 TIL that Bob Dylan never had a number 1 hit single, although The Byrds cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man" topped the charts in 1965.
lLlA TIL that the original EverQuest game made a server called Discord. It was a pvp permadeath full loot server with prizes going to the first few players to hit level 50. The devs openly allowed cheats as well. It was a honeypot server to study cheats and then ban the exploiters after.
YndZ TIL that pirates wore eye patches so they could keep one eye adjusted to the darkness below the deck of the ship. If they had to quickly run back and forth between the upper and lower decks, they could just flip the eye patch up or down.
J1bYQ TIL that King Louis IX was captured and imprisoned for six weeks in Egypt in 1250 during the Seventh Crusade. He was ransomed for the equivalent of one-third of France’s GDP, while nearly all of his army was massacred. 20 years later, he died in Tunisia while on another crusade.
k9aE TIL Gary Burghoff (who played Radar on MASH) has a deformed left hand. He hid it throughout his entire run on the series because it would have made Radar unfit for military duty. (pic in comments)