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[–] gentooer 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People's body temperature used to be higher a century ago, but I think it was less then 1°C.

EDIT: Apparently since the early 1800s, men's body temperature changed about 0.59°C and women's about 0.32°C.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's really interesting. Does anyone know why?

[–] gentooer 4 points 1 year ago

I believe there's a theory that the average person had at least one source of inflammation in their body.