What happened to Nikola Tesla?
nikolai tesla was born around midnight during a lightning storm the midwife thought it was a bad omen and that he would be a child of darkness but tesla's mother prophetically said no he will be a child of light tesla suffered from many characteristics that today would likely be classified as obsessive compulsive disorder he was obsessed with the number three and detested jewelry round objects and touching hair he was particularly wary of pearls and wouldn't talk to women wearing them he even sent his secretary home when she wore pearl jewelry he was also an insomniac and claimed he only needed two hours of sleep at night though he often took afternoon naps after a near fatal case of cholera as a teenager tesla became obsessive about germs and cleaning everything he had an extensive and rigid personal hygiene routine used 18 napkins to wipe his dining room every night and wore white gloves to every dinner tesla had the power to memorize entire books and pictures with great detail which is assumed to have been part of the cause of his terrible nightmares as a child he also had visions of numerous inventions filed away in his brain many of which never made it onto paper he was able to visualize in three dimensions tesla's most important inventions were the tesla coil the neon lamps and the induction motor he died in 1943 in a hotel room after which the fbi raided his home to seize his possessions some of them are still classified to this day you

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