00:00Some historical figures are so significant, we want to study them all the way down to the genetic level.
00:04I'm talking the real heavy hitters here.
00:06You know, Genghis Khan, Albert Einstein, Ozzy Osbourne.
00:10That last one is 100% real, by the way.
00:12They actually studied Ozzy Osbourne's DNA.
00:14I wrote about it. You can read about it.
00:16That's not what we're here to talk about now.
00:17What we're here to talk about now is a group of people who are trying to reconstruct the genome of
00:22Leonardo da Vinci,
00:23and they just had a major breakthrough.
00:25It turns out there are six men alive today walking around who are descendants of the da Vinci family.
00:32Now, not Leonardo da Vinci himself.
00:35That man was a confirmed bachelor for all of his life,
00:37but some of his relatives would have children who would have children who have children.
00:41This is bringing them even closer to reconstructing the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci.
00:45Now, what are they going to do once they've put all that DNA together?
00:49My suggestion, clone him.
00:51If you're missing any parts of the DNA, you can use pieces of the DNA of the common reed frog.
00:56Clone da Vinci a whole bunch of times, put him on an island, and open a theme park.
01:01Welcome to Da Vinci Park.
01:03It's going to be great.
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