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On August 29, 1958, Michael Jackson was born. 1)
Jackson desired to portray Spiderman so badly that he attempted to buy Marvel Comics when it declared bankruptcy in order to cast himself as the character. After his goal of playing Spiderman was dashed due to the failed effort to buy Marvel Comics, Jackson sought unsuccessfully to land the part of Professor X in the X-Men film franchise. 2)
Jackson states that Mexican food was his favorite sort of takeaway. 3)
On the day Jackson died, June 25, 2009, Wikipedia, AOL, and Twitter all went down around 3:15 p.m. 4)
Despite having $1 billion in assets at the time of his death, Jackson supposedly owed $500 million in outstanding bills. 5)