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l7My1 TIL that Nikola Tesla, the inventor and engineer, had a photographic memory and could memorize entire books.
rRAax TIL that, in 1922, Nikola Tesla imagined that his favorite pigeon told him that she was dying. When she actually did shortly after, he said that "something went out of his life and he knew his life's work was finished".
9w5m TIL just 2 days after Nikola Tesla’s death, the FBI ordered the Office of Alien Property (OAP) to seize all of his belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen. The “Alien Property Custodian” was an office of the US Government that was in charge of the property that belonged to US enemies.