The Revenue Act of 1862 created the agency that would later become the Internal Revenue Service.
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The United States first income tax as created by Congress in 1862 to fund the Civil War. It was established under the Revenue Act of 1861.
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At an NOAA conference in 1972, Roxcy Bolton proposed naming hurricanes after Senators instead of women. She also preferred “him-i-canes.”
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Fun Fact of the Day
The USDA’s Food and Safety Inspection Service allows the use of the term ‘wyngz’ to denote a product that is in ‘the shape of a wing or a bite-sized appetizer type product’ but that contains no wing meat but only under certain conditions.
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The FBI was asked to investigate the lyrics of the Kingsmen song “Louie, Louie” to see if violated any obscenity laws. They spent three months in 1964 only to determine the lyrics were indecipherable.
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Fun Fact of the Day
In 2015 the TSA collected $765,759.15 in loose change at airport security checkpoints across the country. They get to keep all of it.
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