Who was Leonardo da Vinci?

Welcome to another exciting episode of History's Not Boring with Mira and Finn! Today, we are traveling all the way back to 1452 to meet the most curious mind in human history: Leonardo da Vinci! Did you know the man who painted the Mona Lisa—the most famous painting in the entire world—also designed flying machines, parachutes, and helicopters 400 years before they actually existed?! Leonardo didn't just paint amazing masterpieces like the Last Supper; he was also a brilliant scientist! He studied human bodies to draw super-accurate anatomy and investigated everything around him. He was so incredibly smart that he wrote in his secret journals using mirror writing. That means he wrote completely backwards so nobody could steal his amazing ideas! He worked for popes, kings, and warlords, and he actually carried the Mona Lisa with him everywhere for the last 16 years of his life, never quite finishing it. When he passed away in the arms of the King of France, he left behind 7,000 pages of notebooks filled with secrets and crazy inventions! Get ready to explore the wild, wonderful world of history's greatest genius!