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TIL that the Pacific island of Guadalcanal and the Mexican city of Guadalajara have the same origin - the originally Arabic word wādī meaning valley.

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6E5dX TIL while humans produce vitamin D by exposing their skin to sunlight, cats and dogs must ingest their own fur as a source of their vitamin D. This is the reason why they love to lay in the sun and groom themselves (probably because it feels good too)
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