In 1986, a drunk fan got into a pace car at Talladega Superspeedway, and started joyriding on the track in front of a nationwide audience. The police cruisers who had to chase him around the track were not amused when they caught and arrested him.

The seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson did not know how to read until he was 17 years old.

The first food eaten in space by a U.S. astronaut was applesauce.

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