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TIL About the Tarantula Hawk, A Spider Wasp That Preys on Tarantulas

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gBA4 TIL that Keira Knightley played the role of Sabé, the handmaiden of Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) in Star Wars: Episode 1. The two girls looked so alike in full makeup that even their own mothers had difficulty telling them apart on set.
VMVA4 TIL of the 2007 Carancas impact event, where a meteor crashed into the ground near the village of Carancas, Peru. 100-200 people who got near the crash site fell ill, and there were reports of livestock dying in the area. The cause of this was determined to be arsenic poisoning.
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