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Tesla was in love with a white pigeon

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Inventing the modern alternating current system apparently takes a severe toll on your romantic life. In his later, incredibly lonely years, Tesla became obsessed with feeding pigeons in New York. He fixated on one specific white bird, claiming she visited him daily and that he loved her 'as a man loves a woman.' He genuinely believed her eventual death effectively signaled the absolute end of his life's work.

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