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TIL 4.6% (~ 1 out of 22) of New York City residents are millionaires.

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mxE6P TIL An 8 months Pregnant Mary Turner protested the lynching of her innocent husband Hayes Turner by a White mob in 1918 and threatened to have them arrested. In order to “teach her a lesson”, she and her unborn child were brutally murdered. No one was charged.
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