I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them, for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different.
— Nikola Tesla Modern

AC electrical system, inventor

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From his diary, referring to a pigeon he claimed to love like a person

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1922

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