We journey through entertaining but useless knowledge, from bizarre tax facts to NCAA basketball origins and Lady Gaga's remarkable rise to fame.
• The first federal income tax from 1913 started at just 1% for incomes over $3,000 and 6% for incomes above $500,000
• Early tax forms were only one page long, compared to today's complex documents
• The first IRS audit target was a farmer who claimed 14 cows as dependents
• Al Capone avoided taxes by bribing politicians with spaghetti
• The IRS once seized someone's pet goldfish for unpaid taxes
• The first NCAA basketball tournament had only 8 teams and was played at Northwestern University
• Teams in the first tournament had to pay their own travel expenses
• The Oregon Webfoots (now Ducks) won the first championship 46-33 against Ohio State
• Lady Gaga's real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
• Before fame, Gaga played in dive bars and once set hairspray on fire onstage after being booed
• In 2019, she became the first woman to win an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA and Golden Globe in the same year
• Dandelions have nutritional and medicinal properties, containing vitamins A, C, calcium, iron, and fiber
• Bananas are technically berries while strawberries aren't
• The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one
So no, this day is not talking about mops or brooms, but celebrating foods that people eat on a stick.
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