When I was a boy, back in the 1970s, I spent a short but intensive period of time trying to bend spoons using the power of my mind.
I was nine years old when the Israeli magician and psychic Uri Geller achieved worldwide fame by using ostensibly telekinetic powers to bend spoons, move compass needles and mend broken watches, and other mystifying feats.
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