HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS!
Here Are Thirty-One Random Facts About The King

Elvis Presley was born on this day in 1935.  Some say he died on August 16, 1977.  Others believe Elvis is alive.

1. Once, after receiving a kidnap/assassination threat, Elvis performed with a pistol in each boot.
2. His Graceland mansion is the second most-visited house in America after White House.
3. Won three Grammy Awards, all for his Gospel music.
4. Owned a pet chimpanzee called “Scatter,” who was thought to have died of liver disease, since he had developed a drinking problem. Some think a maid, whom he had bitten, poisoned the chimp.
5. His autopsy detected ten different drugs in his bloodstream.
6. The year before he died, Presley was prescribed about 10,000 pills. 
7. Was offered roles in such films, as The Rainmaker, Defiant Ones, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, West Side Story, Sweet Bird Of Youth, The Fastest Guitar In The West, Midnight Cowboy, True Grit and A Star is Born
8. Only performed two concerts outside of the United States, both in Canada 
9. His favorite aftershave to impress the ladies was Brut.
10. Elvis recorded more than 600 songs — but did not write any of them.  15 of those songs had the word “blue” in the title.
11. He collected statues of the Venus de Milo.  
12. “Unchained Melody” was a song he only performed during the last 6 months of his life.
13. At its height his daily food intake was an estimated 94,000 calories a day. An Asian elephant consumes only 50,000.  
14. He loved Fool’s Gold Loaf, a hollow loaf filled with a jar of peanut butter, a jar of grape jelly and a pound of bacon. It had 42,000 calories.  
15. Elvis was a big Monty Python fan and the film Monty Python and The Holy Grail was in his video recorder when he died.
16. Elvis made only one appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, in October of 1954. They never invited him back.
17. Elvis was awarded two medals while serving in the Army, one for expert marksmanship, the other for sharpshooting.
18. Was the Biggest Tax Payer in 1973.
19. “Jailhouse Rock” was the first ever music video.
20. Elvis released an entire album of between-song stage banter – “Having Fun With Elvis On Stage” in 1974 to fulfill a contractual obligation.
21. Elvis wrote to President Richard Nixon requesting that Nixon make him a Federal Agent in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Nixon allegedly mailed him a Special Agent badge. 
22. Elvis had plastic surgery in the mid-1970s. He had two full face-lifts and rhinoplasty surgery. During this time he would have been around 40 years old.
23. Elvis has been inducted into Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
24. He made 31 movies in his lifetime.
25. Actor Nicolas Cage, who was briefly married to Elvis’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley, was the only person aside from Presley’s immediate family to see the inside of Elvis’s Graceland bedroom. 
26. In 1977, the year that Elvis died, there were about 170 working Elvis Presley impersonators. Today, there are around 250,000.
27. Sometimes, Elvis would sign “Elvis” on a female fan’s left breast and “Presley” on the right.
28. Elvis hated fish. He wouldn’t allow Priscilla to eat fish at Graceland.  
29. Elvis preferred sponge baths.
30. Elvis dated Natalie Wood, but only for a very brief period. He said he didn’t like the way she smelled.
31. Elvis did LSD in 1965 with The Beatles.