Trivia and Facts about Leonardo da Vinci
•He also designed the cannon, a machine gun, gliders, turnspit for roasting meat, canal system to irrigate fields, and invented the parachute.
•Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti were not the best of buddies.
•One of the quirks of Leonardo was that he wrote many of his notes using mirror writing. Some believe this was to keep his thoughts secret.
•He never married or had children and had a reputation of being a man of high character.
•Unusually for the era in which he lived, Leonardo Da Vinci was a vegetarian, for humanitarian reasons.
•Leonardo dug into graveyards at night to steal corpses and study human anatomy
•He was a left-handed dyslexic and procrastinating perfectionist who left many paintings unfinished and destroyed most of his work.
•Leonardo enjoyed purchasing caged birds so that he could set them free
•Da Vinci is best known for his masterpieces; Mona Lisa, Madonna of the Rocks, and The Last Supper.
