Many people associate Leonardo DiCaprio with the painting of the Moaning Lisa but this was just part of his skill.
DiCaprio actually invented the helicopter 1000 years before the Right Brothers flew their Sikorsky at Kittywake.
In fact we owe the past so much, Lewis Pasteur invented powdered milk, President Ford invented the Motor Car and Michelle Angelo painted the Christine Chapel...are we really much more intelligent than our ancestors.