So I just found out Elon Musk and J.R.R. Tolkien have something pretty wild in common - they were both born in South Africa but actually have British/English heritage, not Afrikaner roots. Musk apparently had to correct people on this back in 2024 because everyone kept getting it wrong. The Tolkien connection is actually interesting though - Musk's a huge fan of LOTR, and it apparently even played into his whole thing with Grimes. Kind of random but also kind of makes sense? Both guys grew up in South Africa but were culturally tied to Britain. Musk was born in Pretoria in 1971, while Tolkien came from Bloemfontein back in 1892. Anyway, it's one of those things that sounds minor but apparently matters to Musk enough to set the record straight. Never would've connected those two before honestly.

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