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Nikola Tesla tried to power a lightbulb with a dramatic monologue. Theater kids were excited.

✗ FAKE
Nikola Tesla did experiments with wireless lighting and electricity, but powering a bulb by monologue is a joke. Wireless transmission of energy is by electric fields, not speech.

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