In his personal life, Nikola Tesla was an… “unusual” character. In addition to being a celibate, he hated human hair, jewelry, and anything that could not be divided by three. He had to count his steps to make sure that they were divisible by three – otherwise, or if he lost count, he would have to do his journey all over again.
Tesla also had a phobia of round things. So powerful was his fear of round items, that he once got a fever from looking at a peach.
A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.
I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.
A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.
