10unknown facts

about Elon Musk

The surname Musk originates from

the French surname le Mechin

that was introduced to England

after the battle of Hastings in 1066

1

Elon Musk's grandfather wanted to find

the Lost City of the Kalahari Desert2

He and his family made several expeditions

through and above the desert

When Elon Musk was young

he liked to experiment3

Once, he tried to hypnotize his siblings

“No, Elon, I'm not going to eat

raw bacon.”

But he wasn't successful...

When Elon Musk decided to move

from South Africa to Canada...4

...he financed the plane ticket

by selling shares in a

Pharmaceutical company

He had earlier tripled his money

before he got bored and sold

Elon Musk chose between two universities5

“I was going to do physics and engineering at Waterloo,

but then I visited the campus,

but there didn't seem to be any girls there.”

“So, I visited Queen's, and there were girls there.

I didn't want to spend my undergraduate time

with a bunch of dudes.”

Elon Musk's favorite spaceship of all

times is Heart of Gold from:6

Heart of Gold has an

engine that's faster

than the speed of light

Elon Musk is a fan of Wikipedia7“It's really incredible what you can learn.”

“It's like 90 percent accurate.”

“It's just not clear what 90 percent.”

When Elon Musk founded Zip2 they had so little

money that their mother had to pay for colored

copies of their business presentation

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Elon Musk has owned a black Aero L-39 Albatros9

“It was just like in Top Gun.”

“We came up to a mountain, did a vertical climb up

the side of it, inverted.”

“Turned upside down.” “Yeah, that was fun.”

Before Elon Musk founded SpaceX

he had plans to recruit mice-astronauts10

“Do you think people would think I'm crazy

if I sent mice to Mars?”

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