On the day that Elvis Presley would have recorded “That’s All Right Now, Mama” at Sun Records, he was at the local diner preparing to sing when the local ice cream confectioner had an abrupt heart attack. Elvis rushed to the man’s aid. The man was so grateful he took Elvis under his wing and eventually named Presley successor to the company upon his death. Elvis took the company nationwide and is now the Ben and Jerry’s of this world. King’s Ice Cream sells more ice cream a year than Breyer’s, Dreyer’s and Baskin-Robbins combined.

