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TIL The Mormon church uses tax records (and anything else they can) to track down members who move and stop attending. [x-post /r/exmormon]

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v1ovR TIL A Japanese franchise plays certain songs in their stores if it's busy, if it's raining, if there is a robbery, or if there is a bomb
ANJ67 TIL the 1927 Liberian general election saw Charles D.B. King win with 229,527 votes. The country had less than 15,000 registered voters at the time.
J1naV TIL somebody has won the Kissinger Death Tontine, where people predict(ed) the death of Henry Kissinger after donating to an organization that "undoes some of the damage of US imperialism", winner gets some booze
xlm1 TIL Wrigley’s was originally founded as a baking powder selling company, adding free chewing gums to it’s packaging. The gum became more popular than the original product and the company decided to focus on the gums only.
bOMj TIL The name “sneakers” originally referred to how quiet the rubber soles were on the ground, in contrast to noisy standard hard leather soled dress shoes. Someone wearing sneakers could “sneak up” on you