Unusual facts about unusual billionaire Elon Musk

He learnt to code at 10

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He dropped out of Stanford for his first start-up

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He's built space rockets

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He sent his car into orbit

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He wants to open pizza joints on Mars

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He went from Tesla shareholder to CEO

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. He's behind the world's largest building

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He wants to launch a new mode of transport

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He's released his own fragrance

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He put a chip in a pig's brain

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