Trivia

His Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), which was not a classified illness in his time but considered a symptom of insanity, made him obsess over the number three where every hotel he stayed at had to include a 3, he would always sit at the same table at his hotel restaurants, have 18 napkins brought over so he can clean his silverware, plates, and glasses due to his great fear of germs so he never shook hands with people, also before entering a building he would circle the block 3 times. He was disgusted by anyone else's hair, he hated jewelry especially pearl necklaces, and loathed perfume. He had so many phobias he couldn't engage into relationships with women and he remained celibate all his life.

Tesla was fluent in many languages besides his native Serbian, he also spoke English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Hungarian and Latin.

Appeared on the cover of Time magazine (was chosen for man of the year) on July 20, 1931.

He discovered X-rays years before Wilhelm Roentgen, invented the radio before Guglielmo Marconi, who would receive the Nobel Prize for it, and worked on inventing machines that ran on renewable resource, such as solar power and hydroelectricity, he contributed to robotics with his invention of a remote controlled motorboat, supposedly contributed to nuclear explosives with the Manhattan Project, and he dreamed of inventing a machine that would end war, since his father Milutin Tesla instilled in him a great loathing of war, and as a result he invented a particle beam ("death ray") which may have lead to his demise when the schematics of his death ray went missing from his hotel room where he supposedly died of heart failure.

Was good friends with Mark Twain.

His father Milutin Tesla was a Serbian Orthodox priest (it is a common custom in Orthodox Christianity that priests can be married).

His image is on the current 100 Serbian dinar banknote.

There is a bronze statue of him sitting with a book on his lap in Niagara Falls State Park on Goat Island, New York (placed 1976). A similar statue is placed in front of E.T.F. (Electro Technical Faculty) university of Belgrade, Serbia. Also there is another one with Tesla standing in Queen Victoria Park on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls.

Worked for Thomas Edison for a long time. The "War of the Currents" begins with these two rivals, Tesla in the end winning when his Alternating Current surpassed Edison's DC.

A museum in honor of his work, known as the Nikola Tesla Museum is located in Belgrade, Serbia. It holds more than 160,000 original documents and works of Tesla, as well as a Urn with Tesla's ashes.

Inducted into the International Lineman Hall of Fame in 2007.

Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1975.

A statue of Nikola Tesla with a time capsule will open on January 7, 2043, the 100th anniversary of his death.

Screenwriter/Producer Gregory Crosby is developing a feature motion picture based on his life.

Designed the AC electricity supply system.

Nikola Tesla's oldest sister Angelina's grandson is William Terbo.

Belgrade airport was renamed 'Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport' in honor of Tesla's 150th birthday on July 10, 2006.

The Tesla crater on the far side of the moon and planetoid 2244 Tesla are named in tribute of him. Also the SI unit for measuring magnetic flux density or magnetic induction the Tesla was named after him (symbol T).

Pictured on a Serbian commemorative postage stamp, issued 21 June 2016, celebrating the 125th anniversary of the patenting of Tesla's resonant transformer. Price on day of issue was 70d.

The Tesla Crater is named after him.

The vehicle companies Nikola and Tesla are named after him.

Died in the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel.

His father Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) was a Serbian Orthodox priest.

Serbian/American scientist, inventor, physicist, mechanical and electrical engineer.

The rock band Tesla is named after him.

Pictured on one of two 2.95r Brazilian commemorative stamps celebrating diplomatic relations between Brazil and Croatia, issued 28 October 2014. The other stamp pictured Brazilian physicist Mario Schenberg.

Invented the Tesla coil.

His great admirer is actor/director/producer Eli Roth.

Worked for Thomas Edison.

Honoring his work in the summer of 2003 started a Silicon Valley automobile company by the name of Tesla Motors, Inc. focused on the production of high performance, consumer-oriented electric vehicles.

Elon Musk's Tesla electric car was named in his honor.