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TIL of the Indian Vulture Crisis, where the population of three species of vulture went from 40 million birds in the 80s to just 19,000 in 2017, a decline of 99.95%

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xPe1 TIL that a hunter-gatherer burns roughly the same amount of calories in a 24 hour period as a sedentary office worker. This is because the body adjusts the metabolic rate down to compensate for activity.
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