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E1yEw TIL that a New York City firefighter has a starting salary of $45k, but after five years their total compensation increases to $110k.
lo6G5 TIL that New York City has more people than 40 of the 50 U.S. states, has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia, and that half of New Yorkers speak a language other than English at home (and over 200 languages are spoken).
AjWw TIL that if Texas had the same population density as New York City, all of the world’s 7.4 billion people would fit inside the state’s borders.