00:00These are 10 weird things you didn't know about Leonardo da Vinci.
00:03Firstly, he would randomly follow people in the street.
00:06More specifically, if he had a large nose, protruding chin, or a weird face.
00:10He would reportedly trail you for hours just sketching you in his notebook.
00:13Next, he was a chronic procrastinator, taking years to finish paintings,
00:17and often left many of his projects unfinished to start new ones,
00:21where the Mona Lisa itself took over a decade.
00:24But he gets weirder.
00:25He wrote everything backwards, writing from left to right,
00:28using a mirror to see what was on the paper,
00:30making it almost impossible to read on its own.
00:32He carried a tiny notebook everywhere he went in case he had an idea or wanted to draw.
00:36Had little to no formal education, yet still learned science, anatomy, and engineering by himself.
00:42He was believed to be a vegetarian, extremely rare for the time,
00:45and would buy caged birds just to set them free.
00:47And even liked pranking people with his lizard,
00:49decorating it with wings, a beard, eyes, and horns to make it look like a dragon,
00:54then setting it free and scaring his guests.
00:56But he doesn't stop there.
00:57He would secretly dissect human bodies and study them,
01:00creating some of the most accurate anatomical drawings in history,
01:03absolutely hated war, but designed tons of deadly war weapons,
01:07and predicted things similar to tanks, helicopters, parachutes, diving gear, and more,
01:12being hundreds of years ahead of his time.
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