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Elvis was a huge fan of The Tonight Show until Johnny Carson joked about him being “fat and forty.”
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When he was young, Elvis would lose several pounds during a concert tour. Later in life, his metabolism wasn’t so kind to him and he reportedly reached 250 pounds.
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While serving in the army overseas, the Germans gave him the nickname “the rock and roll matador.” Also, during his service in Germany he developed the habit of smoking thin German cigars.
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Some of Elvis’s favorite foods included biscuits and gravy, potato cheese soup, meatloaf with mushroom gravy and beefsteak tomato. One of his least favorite foods was fish, and he despised it so much that he reportedly wouldn’t allow Priscilla to eat it at Graceland.
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His last words, according to his then girlfriend Ginger Alden, were, “Okay, I won’t,” when he assured her he wouldn’t fall asleep reading in the bathroom.
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