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TIL that youngest siblings are usually the favorite child

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x65Kw TIL Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union, was an avid fisherman in his retirement. When President Eisenhower, who considered him the most instrumental Allied leader in Hitler's defeat, learned this he had him sent a set of fishing tackle. Zhukov used it exclusively, for the rest of his life.
vPP77 Today I learned they tried to make a British version of That 70's Show but got cancelled after only 6 episodes
loM71 TIL that employers in North Carolina can work you any number of hours, change your hours against your will, and are not required to give breaks or lunch periods if you are over 16.
kjjm TIL in 2012 Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki presented a proof for the “abc conjucture” - one of the most important, unsolved problems in math. However the proof is so difficult and abstract, that not even his peers get the gist of it. To this day it is still unconfirmed.
PYjkw TIL that since the beginning of history the economy has been increasing on a trend that (theoretically) leads to infinity sometime in 2047