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🌏 On December 26, the Boxing Day Tsunami, triggered by a 9.3 magnitude earthquake, devastated 14 countries, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. With waves up to 30 meters high traveling at 800 km/h, nearly 228,000 lives were lost, 167,000 in Indonesia alone. The disaster exposed the lack of warning systems and even shifted Earth’s rotation slightly.

Sony’s PSP launched in Japan on December 12, redefining handheld gaming 🎮. With console-quality graphics, Wi-Fi, and UMD discs for games and movies, it became a multimedia sensation, selling over 80 million units globally.

Meanwhile, Ciara’s 1, 2 Step had everyone dancing 🪩, and Tupac’s posthumous Loyal to the Game, produced by Eminem, stirred debate with remixed vocals. In Australia, Kasey Donovan’s Listen with Your Heart topped the charts, while the UK embraced Do They Know It’s Christmas? 🎄.

At the movies, Ocean’s 12 delivered heist thrills, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events brought dark whimsy, and Meet the Fockers broke Christmas Day box office records with laugh-out-loud family chaos 🎬.

On bookshelves, Night Fall by Nelson DeMille explored TWA Flight 800 conspiracies, though its ending left some readers unimpressed 📚.

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