"Heartbreak Hotel" was Elvis' first #1 hit on the US Billboard pop charts and also earned him his first gold record. Bill Clinton's first US presidential campaign received a much-needed boost when he played this song on the saxophone as a guest on The Arsenio Hall Show.

Perhaps Elvis' most introspective and personal song, "Separate Ways" was recorded shortly after suing Priscilla for divorce and expresses the King's emotions in regards to separating from his wife.

Elvis memorized every line from Patton, the movie for which George C. Scott won the Academy Award for best actor and famously refused to accept it.

Elvis Presley's twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley, was stillborn. Elvis grew up as an only child.

Presley's legendary love for "peanut butter and 'nanner sandwiches" probably helped lead to his oversized waistline toward the end of his life.

Elvis Presley never gave an encore at his concerts. Instead, the lights would come up and an announcer would say, "Elvis has left the building."

The name "Graceland" came with the mansion, from the days when it was originally used as a church.

The melody for "Love Me Tender" is based on "Aura Lee", a ballad written in 1861 by W.W. Fosdick and Geo R. Poulton. RCA Records received over 1 million pre-orders for "Love Me Tender", making it the first single to ship as a gold record before it was released.

Elvis was first introduced to Karate in the army and earned his first-degree black belt in 1960 under Chito-Ryu stylist Hank Slemansky. Later, Elvis trained in a Memphis dojo under Master Kang Rhee, who bestowed upon him a seventh-degree black belt, before Elvis opened his own center, the Tennessee Karate Institute.

Lisa Marie was Elvis' only child. Sole heir to her father's estate, she developed a career in the music business and issued three albums of her own.