Tesla Hoaxes and when the Internet Forgets Stuff

Nikola Tesla only ate spaghetti with his hands "Everything you need to know about the universe can be summed up as 3, 6, 9, damn you fine." -Nikola Tesla Every few months someone sends me a thing about Tesla and 3,6,9. And every time I tell them it isn't real, he never said that. Lil John Big Sam had something poignant to say about it, not Tesla. And there are a slew of similar quotes that make it sound like Tesla was, well, someone he was not. Tesla's brilliance did not come from some hidden, secret, forbidden knowledge. It was a combination of rigorous theory and a TON of experimentation and testing. But lately, I've noticed the sources that originally debunked the Tesla quote are starting to disappear. That makes sense. People copy and paste the fake info, while the trusted sources are often just one website. If that site goes down, the trusted source isn't around anymore. If one fake post disappears, it's replaced a few seconds later by ten more. ...