Elvis was born at their two-room house in East Tupelo, Mississippi, just 35 minutes after his twin brother, Jesse Garon, was stillborn. ¹⁾

Despite becoming a global music superstar, Elvis never played live outside of North America, with all of his appearances in 1957 taking place in the United States and a handful in Canada. ²⁾

There has been widespread conjecture that Elvis never played overseas because his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, was an illegal immigrant who was afraid of being refused re-entry into the nation.³⁾

In 1964, Elvis paid $55,000 for the old presidential yacht The Potomac, which belonged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ⁴⁾

In June 1956, he made his first big stage appearance on “The Milton Berle Show,” performing his trademark song “Hound Dog”. ⁵⁾

Elvis Presley is a distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln and Jimmy Carter, both past US presidents.⁶⁾

Following his divorce from Priscilla in 1972, Elvis became quite the ladies' man, bringing women to Graceland. ⁷⁾

The purchase price of Elvis' Graceland mansion in Memphis in 1957, at the start of his career, was merely $100,000. ⁸⁾

Elvis' debut record was a gift for his mother when he was just 18 years old. ⁹⁾

His jet black hair is really dyed, while his true hair color is a blond. ¹⁰⁾

Ginger Alden, Elvis's girlfriend at the time, discovered him dead on the toilet floor at Graceland. ¹¹⁾

Despite his requests for a gun or a bicycle for his 11th birthday, his mother brought him to a hardware store in Tupelo to select his first guitar. ¹²⁾

A Florida judge who was dissatisfied with Elvis' famous hip motions and body shaking while he danced on stage gave him the name “Savage”. ¹³⁾

Elvis admitted to being harassed as a child, recalling incidents of classmates tossing rotten fruit at him or cutting his guitar strings. ¹⁴⁾

When Elvis' mother Gladys became ill, he returned from the military to be at her side. ¹⁵⁾