8 Facts About Elon Musk You Didn't Know
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Here are little-known facts about Tesla CEO, X owner and billionaire Elon Musk.
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He holds a triple citizenship. Elon Musk was born in South Africa, became a Canadian citizen at 17 and in 2002, he gained a US citizenship.
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Mr Musk taught himself how to code when he was 10. He also created a video game called Blastar and sold it for $500 to a magazine.
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Robert Downey Jr's portrayal of Tony Stark in Iron Man is inspired by him. Before filming the movie, Downey Jr met the Tesla CEO to learn his mannerisms.
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He quit a PhD degree in two days. Mr Musk enrolled at Stanford to pursue a degree in applied physics but he dropped out to start his first company Zip2.
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The X owner is a big fan of Marvel's X-Men comics and has named robots at Tesla after characters from the movies like Iceman, Wolverine, Storm.
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He also named one of his sons Xavier after the character of Professor Xavier.
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Mr Musk owns a James Bond car. The billionaire bought the Wet Nellie, a car used in The Spy Who Loved Me, to convert it into a actual submarine car.
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He has 10 children -- twins and triplets with his first wife, three children with ex girlfriend Grimes and twins with his coworker Shivon Zilis.
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