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TIL China’s #2 most-wanted man keeps offering himself up to the Chinese Government for arrest so he can see his aging parents – but they’re ignoring him

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gk1X TIL Elvis Presley was known for being so generous that he had problems not buying strangers and friends expensive gifts. Elvis’s maid and cook Mary Jenkins was gifted six cars including three Cadillacs from him before his death. Elvis also gave his dentist and jeweler cars.