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Linkin Parks' debut album 'Hybrid Theory' is the highest selling debut album of the 21st Century with 30 million+ sales.

Linkin Parks' debut album 'Hybrid Theory' is the highest selling debut album of the 21st Century.

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  1. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who died at the age of 101 in 2002, had an older sister, Violet, who sadly died at the age of eleven, eight years before the Queen Mother's own birth. Which means that one sister died in the 19th century while the other died in the 21st century.

  2. A German art student illuminated and bound the entire Silmarillion by hand like a 21st-century monastic scribe as his final project.

  3. There is a school of thought that a major war between the supporters and opponents of intelligent machines, resulting in billions of deaths, is almost inevitable before the end of the 21st century.

  4. There have been only 2 human deaths attributed to wolves in North America in the 21st century

  5. The average time between a girl's first period and when she got married was 5 years in the 19th century, but in the 21st it has grown to 15 years.

  6. In the mid-2000s Kevin Smith was approached about the possibility of a Jay & Silent Bob/Hellraiser crossover as sort of a 21st century Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein. They would have opened the box and their version of Hell would have been rehab.

  7. Israel is one of only two countries that entered the 21st century with a net gain in the number of trees

  8. In the 1908 dystopian novel "Lord of the World" a white-haired early 21st century Senator from Vermont is revealed to be the Anti-Christ.

  9. For five hours and 29 minutes Mercury will be visible crossing the sun on November 11, 2019. It will be one of 14 such transits in the 21st century – the last one occurred in 2016

  10. That, despite box office records being broken every year, only one film in the 21st century so far has managed to sell more than 100 million tickets domestically - Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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The Sumatran Jungle Rabbit, one of only two jungle rabbits and the only striped rabbit in existence. It has hardly been seen and wasn't photographed until the late 20th Century/early 21st century.

German software company SAP actively recruits autistic people because “Only by employing people who think differently and spark innovation will SAP be prepared to handle the challenges of the 21st century”. - source

A kakistocracy: a state or country run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was first coined by English author Thomas Love Peacock in 1829, but was rarely used until the 21st century. - source

Only one country entered the 21st century with a net gain of trees, Israel.

As demand for tellurium has increased, the price per pound has increased in the 21st century from $14 to over $100.

The Xia Dynasty ruled from the 21st to 17th century BC. Its founder was Yu the Great.

Sia is the only woman over 40 to get a number one U.S. hit song in the 21st century (with "Cheap Thrills")

Johnny Cash once wrote a science-fiction story called "The Holografik Danser". It was about 21st century America that was taken over by Russia.

For the first time since its founding in 1888, National Geographic magazine became a for-profit publication in 2015. 21st Century Fox holds the majority stake now.

Even now in the 21st century there are still tribes who live in isolated areas unaware of the outside world

All of the 34 largest inflation-adjusted corporate annual earnings of all time were made in the 21st century, and 28 of them were made in the 2010s.

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General Motors Year By Year Net Income In The 21st Century


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As 10 years is called a decade, 5 years is called a "lustrum". So 2015-2020 is the 4th lustrum of the 21st century.

The WHO called workplace stress "the health epidemic of the 21st century" and costs American businesses up to $300 billion a year

Giorgio Moroder's monologue in "Giorgio by Moroder" by Daft Punk was recorded using multiple microphones aging from the 1960s to the 21st century

In the 21st century human beings became mostly city dwellers for the first time in human history!

By 20th century, almost all of Queen Victoria's descendents were carriers or inheritants of hemophilia. By the 21st century, the disease was out of the family tree entirely.

Despite being the UK's most played Christmas hit of the 21st century, the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" has never charted in the US

There is a project called RoboCup promoting robotics and AI research. Its goal: “By the middle of the 21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official rules of FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.”

National Geographic was sold this fall by its nonprofit parent organization to 21st Century Fox, a for-profit company controlled by Rupert Murdoch

Westinghouse Designed an “all electric” home in 1950 that more closely relates to 21st century homes than anything from its time, or years to come.

Mexico's Megalibrary was inaugurated in 2006 and President Fox stated that this was one of the most advanced constructions of the 21st century, and that it would be spoken of throughout the world. The library had to close in March 2007 due to construction defects

Hiram Cronk (1800-1905) and his great-granddaughter Jane (1902-2003) lived in the same house between 1902 and 1905. Thus, a person who was born in the 18th century and a person who died in the 21st century lived together.

In Britain in the early 20th century having all your teeth removed was considered the perfect gift for a 21st birthday or a newly married bride.

15 Y2K-like events have been predicted for the 21st century, and 11 more for the next millenia, including the Y294B.

The two records currently tied for 1st place on the list of best-selling albums of the 21st century are entitled "1" and "21".

It took until 2017 for a town in Georgia, USA to lift a ban on sex toy sales unless the person had a doctor's perscription. 17 years into the 21st century.

Smooth - Santana ft. Rob Thomas was the last #1 hit of the 20th Century and the first #1 hit of the 21st Century.

20th Century Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox

The Civil War's death toll of 750,000 would be the equivalent to 7 million in the 21st century.

20th century officially ended on 31 December 2000, and 21st century started in 2001, not in 2000 as many people might think. The same goes for all other centuries as well.

There are about 290–363 Australian Aboriginal languages. The relationships between these languages are not clear at present and at the start of the 21st century, fewer than 150 Aboriginal languages remain in daily use

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