Rare Photos From Behind The Scenes of the 2000s

For many millennials, the 2000s were the glory days. Fashion was strange, technology was booming, movies were exciting, and the future looked bright. It's easy to lose track of the past when the present is so loud, but this collection of moments may jog your memory...

Kobe Bryant and Vanessa Laine

Bryant and Laine got together when Laine was just 18 years old. Kobe was in his first year in the NBA, and he proposed to Laine right before he entered his first round of finals. One month after Laine accepted the wedding ring, Kobe himself took home his first of five championship rings. 

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The More You Know

  • In 1966 and 1967, soldiers testing Agent Orange in Canada were told the chemical was completely safe and sprayed it on each other to cool off.
  • The Catholic Church considers the Theory of Evolution to be "virtually certain", and believes that intelligent design "isn't science even though it pretends to be."
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • The loudest animal on earth is the sperm whale.
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