 I'm Tom Merritt from Daily Tech News Show. Here are five things you likely did not know about Elon Musk. Oh, Elon Musk. Just saying his name made you think of your opinion of him. Almost everyone has one. But love, hate, or otherwise, there's no denying the world is fascinated with him. But what do you really know about him? That he's South African? Sure. He's one of the richest people on earth, of course. But you want to know more, don't you? Then listen, as I share with you my top five Elon Musk secrets. Number five, he's Canadian. Yeah, he's also South African, which is where he was born. But he got Canadian citizenship through his mother at age 18 and went to college at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Coming in at number four, his first company was Zip2, a city guide software company he started with his brother in 1995. Compaq acquired it for $307 million in 1999. Musk took some of that money and co-founded a direct bank called x.com, which merged with Confinity in 2004 PayPal. When eBay bought PayPal, Musk took some of that money and founded SpaceX. Up to number three, Musk hasn't killed anyone. But his father has. Errol Musk was acquitted on charges of manslaughter after shooting and killing three burglars who entered his South African home in 1998. Sliding in at number two, Musk did not found Tesla. Tesla Motors was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Mark Tarpenning. Elon Musk invested in the company in February 2004 with some of that eBay money, and he became its largest shareholder and the chairman of the board. And now he's CEO and honestly by now it's totally his company. At number one, Musk taught himself to program from a Commodore VIC-20 manual. He sold his first program for $500 to PC and Office Technology magazine when he was 12. It was called Blastar for the Spectra Video Z80 Microcomputer. All right, maybe these aren't secrets. I imagine a lot of you knew some of them and one of you knew all of them because you're a super fan. But I bet a lot of you learned something and I did too. If you want more great tech news and info, buy a gosh subscribe to our channel. You can find it at youtube.com slash daily tech news show if you're not already there and you can get our podcast at dailytechnewshow.com. If you can, help support us at patreon.com slash dtns. Just a little value for value. I'll see you there.