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TIL in modern digital projectors, the image is created by microscopically small mirrors laid out in a matrix on a semiconductor chip. Each mirror can be 5.4 μm or less and represents one or more pixels in the projected image

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Br79r TIL that in Cape Town, a cannon has been fired everyday since 1806 to signal noon. It was traditionally used so that ships could set their chronometers.
VMGpQ TIL of Jonathan Luna, an Assistant United States Attorney in Baltimore who was found dead next to his car in a creek, having drowned after sustaining a head injury and being stabbed 36 times with his own pocketknife. Authorities disagree whether his death was murder or suicide.
jd0E TIL that a Muslim was shot by a bigot after 9/11. He survived and later forgave his would be killer and fought the Texas courts to pardon him.
VBg0m TIL there is a mall in the capital of the country Moldova called Malldova
kOVRB TIL the last US President who was fluent in a language other than English is Franklin D. Roosevelt, who spoke good French and German. Roosevelt died in office in 1945