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Monday, September 03, 2007

Inventor Nikola Tesla was well known for his amazing powers of visualization. He was able to visual his inventions completely, in 3-D, in his head. A less well-known aspect of this ability was that sometimes he would get a song stuck in his head. His mental abilities would magnify the song until it was all that he could hear or concentrate on. On the occasions that this happened he would have to be sedated until the episode passed. His friends would know that the song left his head when his hand would stop moving in rhythm to the internal beat. He was especially susceptible to Cole Porter songs, and once had "I Get a Kick Out of You" stuck in his head for 13 days. He hated Cole Porter and spent long hours at the end of his life designing devices that would kill Cole Porter from great distances.

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