Personal knowledge is different for everyone, since no one can live the exact same way as another person. So, my personal knowledge after having lived for 15 years which consists of heavy metal, report cards, parties, and many other things, will never be identical to another person's personal knowledge. However, the overlaps that can form, although they are never complete, are the small spaces where shared knowledge exists. I don't think that shared knowledge has to be shared by many people; even two people knowing the same thing would count for my personal definition of shared knowledge. So, if I meet someone who came from Toronto, then we would be able to have some shared knowledge about Toronto.
Since shared knowledge is the collection of the opinions and observations of two or more people that agree on that subject, it is sometimes assumed for fact. This is completely wrong. What if I agreed with someone else that heavy metal is a great music genre that relieves my stress, but a million other people disagreed and thought that it wasn't even music and was just a sweaty dude head banging and screaming into a microphone? That is an obvious clash of opinions, and neither one is correct; it is simply that many different forms of knowledge can exist, which is where bias and personal opinions come from.
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