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1. Elvis Presley had an identical twin. Born 35 minutes before Elvis, Jesse Garon Presely was stillborn and buried in an unmarked grave in Priceville Cemetery.
2. Elvis' father, Vernon, forged a check for $4 and was sentenced to three years in prison. He served less than a year.
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3. Elvis Presley attended Humes High School, where he was considered a quiet outsider. He also failed a music class there.
4. Elvis never toured outside the United States. His manager, Colonel Tom Parker, was an illegal immigrant, and Parker was afraid that if he left the U.S., he would not be allowed back in.
5. Presley is a distant relative of two former U.S. presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Jimmy Carter.
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6. Presley was an avid gun collector. At the time of his death in 1977, he owned 37 firearms and one machine gun.
7. Elvis' Graceland mansion is the second-most visited house in America, after the White House.
8. After his father finished his prison sentence for fraud, Elvis and his family joined a local church. It was there that Elvis first started singing.
9. When Elvis was 19 years old, he auditioned for a gospel quartet called Songfellows. He was rejected because they thought he couldn't harmonize well.
10. Elvis' natural hair color was dark blond. He started dyeing his hair black with shoe polish when he was a teenager.
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1. Elvis Presley had an identical twin. Born 35 minutes before Elvis, Jesse Garon Presely was stillborn and buried in an unmarked grave in Priceville Cemetery.
2. Elvis' father, Vernon, forged a check for $4 and was sentenced to three years in prison. He served less than a year.
Photo Credit: Creative Commons / Historical Blue Moon Museum
3. Elvis Presley attended Humes High School, where he was considered a quiet outsider. He also failed a music class there.
4. Elvis never toured outside the United States. His manager, Colonel Tom Parker, was an illegal immigrant, and Parker was afraid that if he left the U.S., he would not be allowed back in.
5. Presley is a distant relative of two former U.S. presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Jimmy Carter.
Use all three images
6. Presley was an avid gun collector. At the time of his death in 1977, he owned 37 firearms and one machine gun.
7. Elvis' Graceland mansion is the second-most visited house in America, after the White House.
8. After his father finished his prison sentence for fraud, Elvis and his family joined a local church. It was there that Elvis first started singing.
9. When Elvis was 19 years old, he auditioned for a gospel quartet called Songfellows. He was rejected because they thought he couldn't harmonize well.
10. Elvis' natural hair color was dark blond. He started dyeing his hair black with shoe polish when he was a teenager.
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