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TIL Sears once offered mail order houses. You'd select your house then Sears would ship it to you by RailRoad and you'd assemble it yourself based on the instructions

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wGXY TIL young, single, childless women earn, on average, 8% more than their male counterparts in 147 of 150 major cities in the U.S.
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