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Elon Musk's early life
Elon Musk was born in the capital of South Africa, Pretoria, on the 28th of June 1971. He went to Pretoria boys high school. By the age of 12 he had taught himself computer programming and sold the basics of a video game to a magazine company for $500. At the age of 17 Elon moved to Canada with his mother after his parents got divorced. His aim was to get to the U.S. and he thought it would be easier for him to go through Canada. At the age of 19 he got accepted at Queens university at Kingston. He spent 2 years at Queens university before moving to the university of Pennsylvania where he received a science degree in physics