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7 Facts About Da Vinci I Bet You Never Knew
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci — the man who inspired Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. I’d also heard of The Last Supper and Dan Brown’s book; Da Vinci Code. But what I didn’t expect was that he wanted to know about the science of fatigue, the tongue of a woodpecker, the jaw of a crocodile, the centre of Milan, helicopter and various forms of intestines in the human species.
His life is a suspense novel and his relentless curiosity is the twist that we don't expect.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci is one of the greatest lofty geniuses who have ever walked on earth. He is the hero of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The inventor of many things we see daily but never know whose product of genius are they. He was a handsome man with a loveable personality, one whom everyone considered his only true closest friend.
So, here are the facts you may have never heard about him:
· An Illiterate Man
· A Chronic Procrastinator
· A Strict Vegetarian
· Almost Everything was His Cup of Tea
∘ 1. Leonardo Loved Playing Pranks
∘ 2. Military Engineering
∘ 3. Cadaver Dissection to understand Anatomy
· Quirky Way of Writing
· He Did Not Like His Hair Going Grey
· Bill Gates Owns…