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TIL Blood donation centers are volunteer based in order to de-incentivize donors lying about their medical background and being disqualified

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go64 Til Japanese researchers have devised a method of decoding dreams that can accurately tell what the patient had been dreaming about.
j6XMv TIL It's illegal to NOT own snow tires in Québec Canada.
yVJnM TIL 'Happy Birthday' by Stevie Wonder was written in honour of MLK Jr, and was used with success to campaign for the establishment of January 15th, King's birthday, as a national holiday.
R5lna TIL: Marmite, the famous yeast spread has a crazy long shelf. You could eat Marmite that was made in 1945, and it would be protected. Its flavor would have changed. However, it would, in any case, taste great.
JVRQ TIL of Planned obsolescence, a manufacturing decision by a company to make consumer products in such a way that they become out-of-date or useless within a known time period so that consumers are forced to buy a product multiple times rather than just once.