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TIL that Singaporean photographer Aram Pan has shot a 360° video of driving through the Streets of Pyongyang, North Korea with exclusive permission from the North Korean government

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PgZ TIL that after Hulk (2003), director Ang Lee thought of retiring early, but his father convinced him not to. The next year, Ang Lee won the Oscar for Best Director, for Brokeback Mountain.
OoVbX TIL that written words in Old English had no standardized spelling, but were spelled phonetically.
VKl0 TIL DLP projectors use up to 8 million hinged microscopic mirrors that can each move independently up to 10,000 times per second!
95Kp TIL that before Austria-Hungary divided and separated, their motto was “Indivisible and Inseparable”.
D1Vrg TIL After working as a repairman in the U.S. Air Force, Morgan Freeman joined the Pasadena Playhouse where he started to dance even though he says he never could really dance. Ultimately it landed him his first acting job. "I looked good doing it, but, no, I could never really dance."