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TIL that despite the popularity of the legend of King Arthur, no English monarch from 1066 onwards ever took the name after coronation

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6x1X TIL there’s a condition called “Hero Syndrome,” where people will search for heroism/recognition by deliberately creating a situation for themselves to resolve. This is known to affect civil servants such as firefighters, nurses, and police.
Eg8kP TIL a pregnant employee at a Christian school was fired for having premarital sex. The school subsequently offered a job to the man who had gotten her pregnant.
LkwkQ TIL India has used 3 time zones in the past - Bombay, Madras and Calcutta, with Madras time zone (being in between the other two) used by the railways all around the country. Neither of them had the arbitrary UTC+X(.5) time offset. The present day IST is closest to the Madras time.
xVnjb TIL about Salps - a jellyfish relative. They asexually reproduce chains of clones who are all female, which then detach and breed sexually. After giving birth to a single asexual offspring they become male, while the offspring starts the cycle over.
EgG5p TIL a Chinese factory taken over by unsupervised workers during the Cultural Revolution paid workers even if they didn't come to work. By the time someone was sent to investigate because of subpar products, almost all equipment was broken or stolen, and only 4% of the workers were still working.