2. Elon was pretty quiet as a kid
Elon would be so quiet as a child that for a while his parents thought he was deaf. The businessman was quite smart as a child and before he was nine he had already read the entire Encyclopædia Britannica – an English-language encyclopedia with contributions from more than four thousand authors. He had also taught himself to code at age twelve.
3. Elon was bullied as a child
As a child, Elon was the youngest and shortest boy in his class. He was often bullied and once even ended up in the hospital after a group of boys had pushed him down the stairs. He was often beaten and at the age of fifteen he decided to take up karate, judo and wrestling.
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