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TIL Leonardo Davinci was famed for buying caged birds at markets and setting them free.

by whatilearned July 27, 2022, 4:10 pm

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TIL one of Leonardo Davinci’s students painted a naked version of Mona Lisa.

by whatilearned May 30, 2022, 6:34 pm

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TIL A young Leonardo Da Vinci was told to paint an angel next to his teacher’s angel in a painting, his teacher was so embarrassed by how much better Da Vinci’s angel was that he quit painting forever.

by whatilearned May 14, 2022, 1:03 am

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TIL that Leonardo da Vinci designed a robotic knight operated by cables. When modern engineers built a replica based on the designs, it was functional.

by whatilearned February 12, 2022, 2:47 am

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TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” as it exists today is largely a modern reconstruction. The painting was already severely deteriorated within sixty years of being painted, and has since suffered flooding, bombing, French revolutionaries, a scratchy curtain and use as a prison cell.

by whatilearned February 9, 2022, 12:11 pm

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TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli once plotted to steal the Arno River from Pisa when the city was at war with Florence.

by whatilearned January 22, 2022, 10:27 pm

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TIL Leonardo Da Vinci saved 13,000+ pages of notes and drawings on anatomy, physiology, engineering, mechanics, geometry, mathematics, bird flight, flying machines, botany, proportions, topology, weaponry, musical instruments, art, and more, all in mirrored shorthand written from right to left.

by whatilearned January 11, 2022, 4:06 pm

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TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire co-starred in a movie called Don’s Plum in 2001, but the movie was blocked from distribution in the US and Canada because they’d only agreed to star in a “short” film, not a “feature” film.

by whatilearned December 1, 2021, 9:46 pm

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TIL The Santa Maria Nuova hospital in Florence, still in operation today, was founded in 1288 by the father of Beatrice(one of the main characters in Dante’s devine comedy). The hospital is decorated with frescoes by renaissance masters and Leonardo studied anatomy at the same institution

by whatilearned November 19, 2021, 9:43 am

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TIL when brainstorming the time travel plot for Star Trek: First Contact, they considered sending the crew back to the Renaissance, befriending Leonardo da Vinci, and having sword fights alongside phaser fights. The idea was scrapped for being too campy and Patrick Stewart refused to wear tights.

by whatilearned November 13, 2021, 7:08 pm

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TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci fully intended for his works to be published and left them to his pupil, who couldn’t get through the writing and only managed to compile a treatise on painting in his lifetime, with the rest of papers sold off by disinterested heirs

by whatilearned November 5, 2021, 2:33 pm

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TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci invented ball bearings – a friction-reducing part without which no modern machinery would be possible

by whatilearned November 4, 2021, 3:08 pm

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