Did you know these things about the world's richest man Jeff Bezos?

After lawmakers collected hundreds of hours of interviews and obtained more than 1.3 million documents about Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, their chief executives on Wednesday testified before Congress, in attempts to defend their powerful businesses from the government's antitrust hammer. Among these, Jeff Bezos's testimony stood out substantially as he revealed sbstantial details of his early life and how he founded Amazon 26 years ago. 

Bezos' mother Jackie was expecting him when she was a 17-year-old high school student in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Credit: Reuters

His mother attended night schools so that she could take him along with her to school. Reminiscing his mother, he said,

Being pregnant in high school was not popular in Albuquerque in 1964. It was difficult and his mother was nearly kicked out of school. However, after some negotiation, she was allowed to finish high school, but was not allowed any extracurricular activities. She wasn't allowed to even have a locker. Credit: Twitter/ @JeffBezos

Jeff Bezos was adopted by his father Miguel when he was 4 years old. Credit: Twitter/ @JeffBezos

His father was from Cuba and came to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan, shortly after Castro took over. Credit: Twitter/ @JeffBezos

His grandfather was a civil servant and a rancher—he worked on space technology and missile-defense systems in the 1950s and ‘60s for the Atomic Energy Commission. Credit: AFP

Inspired by his grandfather, Bezos became a garage inventor. He invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires, a solar cooker out of an umbrella and tinfoil, and alarms made from baking pans to entrap his siblings. Credit: Twitter/ @JeffBezos

Jeff Bezos conceptualized Amazon in year 1994. His idea was to build an online bookstore having books with millions of titles. Credit: Reuters

Before the inception of Amazon, Bezos worked in an investment firm in New York city. Jeff Bezos' parents were the initial investors of Amazon. Credit: AP

Bezos said that in his initial days, he drove the packages to the post office himself, dreaming that one day he might be able to afford a forklift. Credit: Twitter/ @JeffBezos

In January 2019, he announced his split with MacKenzie Scott, whom he was married to for 25 years. Jeff Bezos retained voting control of his stake in the company under the divorce settlement with his wife who retained a 4% stake in Amazon. MacKenzie also gave up her interests in the Washington Post, which Bezos bought in 2013 and the rocket company Blue Origin he founded in 2000. Credit: Reuters