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TIL that Yao Ming's conservation campaigns have led to a 50 to 70% reduction in the consumption of shark fin soup in China

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o4J8 TIL cats kill between 8.3 billion and 24.4 billion birds and mammals each year and have been blamed for the global extinction of 33 species.
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