10 Interesting facts about Elon Musk you must know

Elon Musk created and sold a video game to a magazine when he was 12 years old. ‘Blastar,’ a space fighting game.

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Musk’s first business venture was the founding of Zip2, a company that provided newspapers with maps and business directories.

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Musk dropped out of Stanford after just two days

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Musk made a cameo on ‘The Simpsons’, The Big Bang Theory

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Musk bought James Bond’s submarine car which featured in “The Spy Who Loved Me” for close to $1 million .

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Musk and his roommate Andeo Ressi rented a large house and converted it into a nightclub to pay rent.

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Musk appeared in Iron Man 2 as a cameo.

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Elon Musk runs a school called Ad Astra to provide his children with education that “exceeds traditional school metrics on all relevant subject

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Musk is a fan of rapper Kanye West considers the rapper his inspiration.

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Musk was awarded the FAI Gold Space Medal in 2010 for designing the first privately developed rocket to reach orbit by the Federation Aronautique Internationale.

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