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TIL Robert Rodriguez's 2010 exploitation film Machete is a spin off of his kids' film series Spy Kids. Isador Cortez (AKA Machete, played by Danny Trejo) appears in both films

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89ra TIL Michael Fassbender had to choose between the roles of the Lizard in “The Amazing Spider-Man” and Magneto in “X-men: First Class”
6ELPm Today I learned that Pablo Escobar Owned a football team in Colombia
RPK8 TIL that Tina Turner became a citizen of Switzerland and relinquished her U.S. citizenship in 2013
16l17 TIL about Johnnie Dodge, an American-born British Army Officer who participated in the Great Escape, got sent to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, escaped again, survived being sent back to the camp, and lived through the fire bombing of Dresden.
Wkjg4 TIL Planets and stars actually orbit around their common center of mass. This common center of mass is called the barycenter. As a result, the barycenter of Jupiter and the sun isn’t in the center of the sun. It’s actually just outside the sun's surface!