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The 2000s Fun Facts

A decade by no means is a short period. Can you recall what all happened in the 2000s?

The invention of the camera phone that you may use daily is just one of the. Glide through some of the interesting facts of this period.

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2000s Fun Facts

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Quaoar is a dwarf planet that was discovered in 2002. It is located in the Kuiper belt that lies beyond Neptune.

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Roger Federer won his first-ever Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 2003. He is known as the greatest lawn tennis player of all time.

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Kosovo, which lies to the south of Siberia, declared its independence from Serbia in 2008 after it was supported by the United States of America and major European countries.

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A shorter format of cricket’s 50 over format was introduced in 2003, which came to be known as T20 cricket. One innings in this format is 20 overs.

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was the first of the 8-movie series based on novels of the same name by J.K. Rowling. It was released in 2001.

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The “Ice Age” franchise is a series of movies that started with the movie “Ice Age” in 2002. The plot of the movie is around the survival of mammals in the Paleolithic age.

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The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Baltic Sea in 2000. There were 118 personnel on board, all of whom were killed.

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Tim Burton is a world-famous American film director who is known for the movies Batman (1989), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Dumbo (2019).

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The first-ever iPhone was released by Apple on 29 June 2007 in the USA. By the end of the same year, it was also released in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.

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Usain Bolt is a Jamaican sprinter and a world-famous figure. He set the record of 9.58 seconds in 2009 in a 100m race.