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TIL That the Voice Actor Who plays Master Chief in Halo has a Radio show

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e0v56 TIL: One of the shortest operas which is regularly performed concerns the emotional lives of two unhappily married couples as they play a hand of Bridge.
7Jo7 TIL a “micromort” is a unit given to the amount of times a person will die out of a million tries. For example, going skydiving is 9 micromorts, meaning that there is a 9/1,000,000 chance that a person will die after a trip.
XEr9R TIL Muammar Qaddafi was obsessed with Secretary of State, Condolezza Rice. During one visit he showed her a video with photos of her with various people, set to a song composed just for her called ‘Black Flower in the White House.’ When his house was raided a scrapbook of her pictures was found.
l70P5 TIL in the first millennium, small Christian communities were established in south & east Asia. Some Mongol tribes were Christian, & some of Genghis Khan's daughter-in-laws came from Christian clans. A small Christian community was also established in India around 300AD, which still exists today.
4VrJ TIL there is a word that rhymes with orange. Sporange is a botany term that means “spore case.”