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1. Nikola Tesla, the guy who conducted experiments with electricity, was born during a lightning storm.
2. To work for Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla moved to the United States in 1884.
3. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in the Austrian Empire, now Croatia.
4. Nikola Tesla invented the Tesla coil in 1891, a component still used in radio equipment today.
5. A lot of states in the United States celebrate the birthday of Nikola Tesla.
6. One of the first significant inventions of Tesla was made in 1881. It’s about a sound amplifier for the telephone receiver.
7. Some of the inventions of Nikola Tesla are classified.
8. He was an environmentalist and was concerned that the available non-renewable natural resources would run out.
9. 3, 6 and 9 were the favorite numbers of Nikola Tesla.
10. Tesla once worked for 84 hours without any rest.
11. Nikola Tesla owned over 275 patents in 26 different countries.
12. The government of the United States thought that German spies were using the creations of Tesla.
13. Nikola Tesla invented, imagined, or contributed to things like neon lights, remote controls, smartphones, wireless transmission, alternating current and robots.
14. Nikola Tesla had imagined the wireless internet and smartphones way back in the early 1900s.
15. Because of his intellect and attitude, people called him a “mad scientist”.
16. He had an obsessive-compulsive personality. Nikola Tesla detested germs, round objects and jewelry.
17. Nikola Tesla detected intelligent radio signals from space, he thought.