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TIL that 76% of Eritreans defecate in the open

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DARY TIL in 1892, during a massive general labor strike in New Orleans, white and black workers united in an effort to gain better working conditions. Although commercial representatives tried to divide the workers by race, spreading stories of ‘negro mobs’ victimizing whites, the workers remained united
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