10 Crazy Facts About What Life Was Like The Last Time The Cubs Won The World Series

The Cubs will have the best record in baseball going into August. They last won a World Series in 1908, which was also the year that...

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...The Montreal Wanderers won the Stanley Cup

The team won four Stanley Cups before disbanding in 1918.

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...First class postage stamps cost 2 cents

It was actually $.03 from 1866 to 1882.

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...The first Model T automobile sold for $850.

It was developed by Henry Ford.

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...The Penn Quakers went undefeated and shared the college football national championship.

The Quakers were 11-0-1 and shared the title with LSU (10-0).

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...A "ball drop" to welcome in the New Year happened for the first time.

The first Times Square celebration welcomed in 1905, but the ball was added three years later.

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...Gandhi was arrested for the first time.

He failed to carry a mandatory ID card while in South Africa.

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...The fourth modern Olympic Games were held in London.

The event included the first 26-mile marathon race.

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...The Eiffel Tower was the tallest building in the world.

It held the title until 1930, when the Chrysler Building was built in New York City.

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...There were only 45 U.S. states.

Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska and Hawaii had not yet joined the Union.

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...The population of Las Vegas was 30.

More than 600,000 people live there today.

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