10 Things You Didn’t Know About Elon Musk

1. Elon Reeve Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 28, 1971.

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2. Kimbal and Tosca, two of Musk's younger siblings, are brothers.

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3. He has called his upbringing and education "awful" and "nonstop horrific," respectively.

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4. At the age of 12, he created the video game Blastar after teaching himself how to code.

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5. He travelled to Canada at the age of 17 and stayed with family.

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Musk and his brother founded Zip2, a business that offered and licenced online city guide software to newspapers, in 1995.

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7. He and his first wife, Justine Wilson, have six kids.

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8. According to rumours, Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark in the 2008 movie "Iron Man" was inspired by Musk.

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9. In addition to Zip2, PayPal The Musk Foundation, SpaceX, Tesla, OpenAI, Neuralink, The Boring Company, and Thud, he also started or co-founded a number of other businesses.

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10. He was listed as the 25th most powerful person in the world by Forbes in 2018.

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