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you showed up with these snacks.
    R OYAL ROADKILL
    Young Elvis’s family was so poor that they often ate squirrels, possums, pigs’ feet, and pigs’ ears for dinner.
    HIS FAVORITE FOODS
    •Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches
    •Burned bacon
    •Sauerkraut
    •Chitterlings (boiled animal intestines)
    FANTASTIC FOOD FEAT
    When he was in his 20s, Elvis could eat eight cheeseburgers and two BLTs, and drink three milk shakes…all in one sitting!
    WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR A PB&J?
    Elvis once flew to Denver, Colorado, after hearing about a restaurant that made great peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. He had 22 of them delivered to the airport runway and ate them on the flight back to Memphis.

    During his lifetime, Elvis Presley gave away more than 80 Cadillacs.

25 WAYS TO SPELL SHAXBERD
    The next time you get marked down on an assignment for poor spelling, consider telling your teacher that you spell words “the Elizabethan way.”
    T HE NAME GAME
    Almost everyone considers William Shakespeare to be the greatest writer in the history of the English language. His plays—like Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet , Macbeth , and A Midsummer Night’s Dream —are widely performed today. And in his own time (the late 1500s and early 1600s), his plays were the most popular in London. But as much as everyone loved Shakespeare in those days, there was one thing they had trouble agreeing on: how to spell his name.
    In Shakespeare’s era (called the “Elizabethan era,” because Queen Elizabeth I was the queen of England at the time), the spelling of words was often inexact. Back then, very few people could read, and Londoners spoke in many different dialects. That made spelling a tricky business. The result: historians have discovered that “Shakespeare” was spelled at least 25 different ways from the time he was born in 1564 to 1623, when his plays were first published.
    Q: You have a ZIP code, but do you know what “ZIP” stands for?
A: Zone Improvement Plan.
    WILLIAM WHO?
    His name was always pronounced the same, and the differences in spelling had to do with the different ways people wrote the same sounds. For example, “ck,” “ks,” “kes,” and “x” all made the same sound, and in some accents, “berd” could even sound like “peare.” Why? In Shakespeare’s day, there was no authority on how to spell words, and no common dictionary to look them up in, so spellings always varied.

    Without further ado, here are the 25 different ways to spell “Shakespeare”:
    1) The most common spelling was “Shakespeare.”
    2) Shakespere
    3) Shakespear
    4) Shakspeare
    5) Shackspeare
    6) Shakspere
    7) Shackespeare
    8) Shackspere
    9) Shackespere
    10) Shaxpere
    11) Shexpere
    12) Shakspe-
    13) Shake-speare
    14) Shaxberd
    15) Shak-speare
    16) Shakspear
    17) Shagspere
    18) Shaksper
    19) Shaxpeare
    20) Shaxper
    21) Shakespe
    22) Shakp
    23) Shaksp.
    24) Shakespheare
    25) Shakspe

WRONG FACTS
    In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue… well, at least that much is true.
    FACT? Italian Christopher Columbus sailed under the flag of Spain because he couldn’t get financial backing at home for his voyages. Everybody thought the world was flat and worried that he would sail off the edge.
    WRONG! Columbus wanted to sail west to Asia. Everybody else had sailed east, but Columbus thought a trip west would be faster and easier. He did have a hard time getting money for the trip, but it wasn’t because people in the 1400s thought the world was flat. Educated people knew the world was round. Investors and the Italian government thought Columbus was underestimating how far away Asia was. They didn’t want to fund his voyage because they thought he’d run out of supplies during the trip.

    FACT? Christopher Columbus discovered America.
    WRONG! He was looking for India, but he actually landed in the Bahamas, not what’s technically North America. And he was definitely not the first person to “find” the Americas. Native American tribes had