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Back in 2017, Facebook’s head Mark Zuckerberg had a once-in-a-lifetime experience with one of NASCAR’s most iconic drivers, Dale Earnhardt Jr. The opportunity to ride with Junior in a Cup Series car. However, during their ride around the track, the Elon Musk rival dropped an NSFW bomb after the car hit more than 160mph around the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

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The conversation went as follows, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook said, “So we are going to start slow and ease our way into it here.”

Junior replies, “Yeah we should”

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Zuckerberg continues to ramble on, All right. Just going for a little stroll. All right. Holy Sh*t! All Right, we are a little close to the wall. Alright, I can’t actually hear anything that I am saying. What an amazing experience.”

Junior said, “I could hardly hear you during the run.” Promptly Zuckerberg replied, I couldn’t hear you at all. Yeah, I couldn’t even hear myself.”

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Zuckerberg finally said, “I think there would probably be millions of people who would die to do it. I just did.”

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Junior ended with, “Well, it certainly is a lot of fun.”

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What is Mark Zuckerberg’s beef with Elon Musk?

The pair have had a long-standing feud with each other, mostly rumored to have started around 2016, when a Space X rocket blew up and destroyed one of Facebook’s satellites.

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Since the rocket explosion, Zuckerberg took to his platforms and issued a public statement regarding his displeasure with Space X and their failure to launch their satellite. In 2017, Zuckerberg took a dig at Musk surrounding his views on artificial intelligence, where he stated that Musk’s understanding of the subject was limited.

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Again in 2018, Zuckerberg’s companies were involved in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Musk took to Twitter and mentioned that he was deleting all of his company’s Facebook pages. There were more controversies surrounding Facebook after which Musk asked his fans to delete the Facebook application. Again, sometime later, after reports emerged that FB and Whatsapp’s data-sharing policies were invasive to anyone’s privacy. Musk urged users to replace Whatsapp (owned by Zuckerberg) with Signal (a secure messaging platform).

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Ever since the two billionaires have been engaged in a war of words, and every so often they come up with something or the other to put each other down.

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