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Elon Musk’s failure

What did Elon Musk try for two days before he gave up? Was it … eating only carrots, getting his Ph.D., living in a Mars space simulator or saying “good enough” to any project?

The answer: Elon Musk dropped out of Stanford University’s Ph.D. program in applied physics and materials science after just two days in 1995. In an interview, he said, “I could either do a Ph.D. or watch the internet happen.”

That same year, Musk co-founded Zip2, a city guide software company, which he sold to Compaq in 1999 for about $300 million. I don’t think he needed that degree after all …

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Kendrick Lamar is somewhere laughing: Drake just dropped a 100GB folder of music, videos, photos and random content for his superfans. There are three unreleased tracks, but the bulk is behind-the-scenes footage of him making music, as well as storms in Miami. There are 13 videos of just rain and wind knocking around palm trees. Uh, neat.

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An elephant came out of a bar, got into his car and drove off erratically. He was stopped by a police officer and charged with …

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Titanic! Sorry, that was a terrible icebreaker.

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Check out this 5MB IBM hard drive being loaded onto a plane in 1956. It weighed about 2,000 pounds. The drive had 50 24-inch platters.

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What do priests and cabbage perfumes have in common? Lettuce spray.

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I hope you’re not lactose-intolerant, because I have some cheesy pickup lines.

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Worst job I ever had was ironing cowboy shirts. Howdy pressing.

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Greeting next time I go to yoga: “What’s up, dog?”