During WW2 the Japanese built a deathray inspired by ideas from Nikola Tesla, the problem was that enemies would have to stand perfectly still for 10 minutes before it would work.
In 1898 Nikola Tesla once tricked an entire crowd into believing they could control a toy boat by shouting commands – he had in fact invented Radio Control and was piloting the boat himself.
Tesla could speak eight languages : Serbo-Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and even Latin.
Tesla was able to perform integral calculus in his head, which prompted his teachers to believe that he was cheating.
Nikola Tesla’s statue in Silicon Valley provides a free wi-fi signal to nearby people.
Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a model of his “death beam”, warning hotel staff to never open it. After his death in 1943 the box was pried open and found to contain nothing but harmless old electrical components.
Nikola Tesla was born during a fierce lightning storm. According to family legend, midway through the birth, the midwife wrung her hands and declared the lightning a bad omen. This child will be a child of darkness, she said, to which his mother replied: “No. He will be a child of light.”
There’s a Nikola Tesla statue that radiates Free Wifi in Silicon Valley.
Nikola Tesla openly expressed disgust for overweight people. Once, he fired his secretary solely because of her weight.