5 Things you might want to know about the King of Pop

Michael Joseph Jackson or also known as "The King of Pop" was born on August 29, 1958 at Gary, Indiana, USA and died at the age of 50 last June 25, 2009 at Los Angeles, California.

MJ was a very successful singer/songwriter, producer, dancer, choreographer and businessman of his time. Here are some of the weird stuffs you might want to know about the late Michael Jackson.


It is rumoured that Jackson was sleeping on a hyperbaric oxygen chamber for beauty proposes and for him to live longer where he later donated the bed to a Californian medical centre as a therapeutic aid for burns victims.


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This was imported from Japan. Fully assembled and painted, this 7" tall, fix posed, vinyl caricature figure presents Michael Jackson as he appeared in the triller video.


MJ invented and patented special shoes that allowed him to lean so far forward that it seems to defy gravity.



Bubbles was the name of Michael's chimpanzee that he rescued from a Texas cancer research center in 1985.


Michael Jackson was suffering from a rare genetic disease called Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.


(via, Oddee)