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TIL of the Shard of Harry. In the MMO Asheron's Call, a group of players defended a shard that needed to be destroyed for the game to progress and killed any player that attempted to do that. Eventually the developers tried to defeat the defenders with their own characters. They were also killed.

4XVyb TIL To sustain his energy levels Bruce Lee used to take small glass vials of Royal Jelly. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recalled that during the filming of The Game of Death Lee would frequently open one of these little vials and consume its contents.
4Jl6 TIL in 1887, it was made illegal in Canada to attempt to try to get a woman under 21 years old to have sex with you by promising you would marry her if she did. Punishments for this crime included imprisonment and whipping.
4keBX TIL of Peter Buxtun, a Public Health Service epidemiologist, exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by filing two protests with his superiors. His actions led to the story making the front page of The New York Times the following day and prompted the call for congressional hearings.
gMOdW TIL sheep shearing is not animal cruelty. If sheep are not sheared they can experience a lot of health problems. There was a sheep in Australia that was found unsheared for six years, five time the wool of normal sheep, with damaged hooves and skin infections from urine trapped under his wool.
AZ4x TIL When the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 the police arrested and questioned Pablo Picasso