SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted an outlandish tweet on Monday in which he references the novel The Guns of August, a 500-page book about the early stages of World War I. Musk, 50, captioned the tweet with the name of the book, written by Barbara Tuchman in 1962, along with the entire first paragraph of the book. Barbara Tuchman's 1962 novel was centered on the first month of the Great War and the opening events of WWI, along with the decisions that led to it. Tuchman's book was an immediate bestseller and earned her a Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction'The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again,' so ends the paragraph. Tuchman's book, centered on the first month of the Great War, was an immediate bestseller and earned her a Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. President John F. Kennedy was so impressed with it that he gave a copy to each member of his cabinet and some of his top military advisors and told them to read it.

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk is already dabbling in the electric car, solar energy, aerospace, tunneling and neuroscience industries. As if those aren't keeping him busy enough, Musk may now have his sights on entering the media industry. The SpaceX boss has poached several writers and editors from satirical news publication The Onion to work on a secret project he's funding, according to The Daily Beast. Possibly giving credence to the report, Musk sent out a pair of cryptic tweets early Wednesday, beginning with one that simply said'Thud!' Rumors are circling that SpaceX boss Elon Musk is planning to launch his own'intergalactic media empire.' The Daily Beast reported that he's poached writers and editors from the Onion for a secret satirical news project.