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TIL Before he was the best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown tried his luck as a musician. In 1994 he released an album called Angels & Demons—a title he reused for a 2000 novel.

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 10:25 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 – Jesuit Priest Athanasius Kircher has been compared to da Vinci as ‘Master of a Hundred Arts’. Considered a founder of Egyptology, proposed the plague was spread by microorganism, andinventions attributed to him include a magnetic clock, various automatons and the first megaphone.

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 8:33 pm

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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 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 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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TIL the Adoration Of The Magi is an unfinished work by Leonardo da Vinci commissioned by a Florentine monastery in 1480. Consistent with his proneness to abandon projects, he eventually grew bored with it, simply left, and moved to Milan. The monastery paid Filippino Lippi to complete it instead.

by whatilearned August 26, 2021, 3:05 pm

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TIL Leonardo da Vinci wrote “all the branches of a tree at every stage of its height when put together are equal in thickness to the trunk”. In 2011 Christophe Eloy investigated and found that trees which followed Leonardo’s rule would be the best at resisting wind-induced fracture.

by whatilearned July 28, 2021, 5:39 pm

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TIL it is thought that Da Vinci suffered from ADHD, because he left so many works unfinished, including the Mona Lisa. He also spent excessive time planning, got very little sleep, & often worked continuously, night & day

by whatilearned June 26, 2021, 5:47 am

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