15 Interesting Facts About Michael Jackson

15 Things You Didn't Know about Michael Jackson

• Michael Jackson is The Most-Awarded Artist of All Time. He won 23 Guinness World Records, 40 Billboard Awards, 13 Grammys, and 26 American Music Awards.

• Michael Jackson is the highest-earning late artist. He has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records in a new category for Highest-Earning Deceased Artist, gaining the top honor. In the first year after his passing in 2009, reported $1 billion

• He performed his first public performance at the tender age of 5 and sang 'Climb Every Mountain'.

• Thriller is the bestselling album of all time. It sold 42.4 million copies.

• Thriller spent 122 weeks on the Billboard

• His favorite food was Mexican. A burrito and taco would leave him happy and satisfied.

• His middle name was Joseph - Michael Joseph Jackson.

• He had a deep love of children - perhaps because of his lost childhood due to his early singing career. He would wear a black armband to remind people of suffering children around the world.

• His favorite animated character was Pinocchio.

• He was fond of pets. He had a python called Crusher, two llamas called Louis and Lola and his most famous pet was Bubbles, the chimpanzee.

• For beauty purposes and to live longer, Michael Jackson used to sleep in an oxygen tent. He later donated the bed to a Californian medical center as a therapeutic aid for burn victims.

• Michael Jackson invented and patented special boots that allowed the wearer to lean so far forward that it seems to defy gravity. 

• He suffered from a rare genetic disease called Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. The inherited disorder that may cause lung disease and liver disease.

• On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication at his home on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles

• According to reports, Jackson's burial was originally scheduled for August 29, 2009 (which would have been his 51st birthday). His service and burial was held at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park on September 3, 2009.