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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.

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WkQb4 TIL that Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish poet, in 1943 tried to escape from a Nazi work camp in Tarnopol (now Ukraine), for which he was sentenced to death. While digging his own grave, he killed a guard with a shovel and successfully escaped disguised as a Wermacht soldier.
mxVky [TIL] that there was an actual Dropkick Murphy, an osteopath, pro wrestler and sanitarium operator. It was from his alcohol detoxification program on his farm near Boston that the band Dropkick Murphys derived their name.
gM7gA TIL that there is an English word equivalent to the German word: Shadenfreude: Epicaricacy, which means to derive pleasure from another's misfortune.
jRWN TIL, if you’re like most drivers, you have your mirrors adjusted unsafely. They should be adjusted far outside so that you can’t see your car at all to get rid of “BLIND” spots.
ya9v TIL that a boy had 232 teeth surgically removed, due to having a very rare disease that causes additional teeth to grow in the mouth