1. The band's name stems from one of those cosmically "truly weird moment(s)" wherein Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh randomly opened a dictionary and the words — the title of an Egyptian prayer — were on the page right in front of them.

2. Their formation is "weirdly miraculous" to begin with, as each member came to the table with distinctly different musical and personal backgrounds, and all just happened to hang around the back door of the same Bay Area music shop.

3. Likewise, no one can really describe the magic of their legendary rise to fame, either. Jerry Garcia once said, "If I knew what made us popular, I'd bottle it. … Whatever it is, it invented us, we didn't invent it."

4. Before meeting any other future performing members of the band, Jerry Garcia first befriended Robert Hunter in 1960, who would go on to become the band's lyricist behind some of their biggest songs like "Sugar Magnolia," "Casey Jones," and "Truckin'."

5. Collectively, they've maintained that their purpose as a band is always to shift minds, paradigms, and "weltanschauung" — or "worldview" — according to bassist Phil Lesh.