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🎧 iTunes hits one billion downloads
Apple celebrates its billionth song purchase, officially crowning digital downloads king. The lucky buyer scores iPods, an iMac and bragging rights while white earbuds dominate buses everywhere.

💷 Britain’s biggest heist pulls movie-level chaos
A gang posing as police kidnap a cash depot manager and his family, storm a Securitas depot and roll out with nearly £53 million, smashing UK robbery records. With nicknames like ‘Stopwatch’ and prosthetic disguises straight out of Ocean’s Eleven, it feels cinematic… except families were held hostage and millions are still missing today.

🧬 Funeral homes caught in body parts scandal
A New Jersey company is accused of secretly harvesting bones and tissue from corpses without consent, selling them into medical supply chains worldwide. Thousands of patients unknowingly receive improperly sourced tissue and families discover their loved ones weren’t left to rest intact. One of the decade’s creepiest real-life scandals.

💃 Strip club heartbreak hits radio
T-Pain’s “I’m N Luv (Wit A Stripper)” storms charts, mixing Auto-Tune hooks with surprisingly emotional strip-club romance. It launches T-Pain’s hit-making run and quietly introduces the sound that’ll dominate pop for years.

🐕 Antarctica’s goodest boys steal hearts
Eight Below turns sled dogs into survival heroes as abandoned pups battle Antarctic winter until Paul Walker’s guilt-fuelled rescue mission kicks in. Families cry, dogs become instant heroes and the box office happily cashes in.

🐶 Marley melts hearts (and sparks debate)
Marley & Me climbs bestseller charts, telling the story of the world’s naughtiest Labrador and the family who loves him anyway. Readers laugh, cry and then argue online about whether Marley or his owners were the real problem.

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