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= Solution

Every martingale is a <supermartingale>, with equality in its defining conditional expectation. Taking expectations and using the <tower property of conditional expectation> gives
$$
\mathbb E[X_{n+1}]=\mathbb E[X_n],
$$
so induction yields
$$
\boxed{\ \mathbb E[X_n]=\mathbb E[X_0]\quad\text{for every }n.\ }
$$

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