TIL that Nikola Tesla possessed an eidetic memory but also suffered from OCD. The scientist was compelled to do things in threes, he was obsessed with pigeons and averted women with earrings. Died at the age of 86 alone into an hotel room.
https://www.aaas.org/taxonomy/term/10/brilliant-and-tortured-world-nikola-tesla
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