Here are a few things you may like to know about YouTube:
- There are only two bigger websites in the world. Google and Facebook.
- YouTube was purchased by Google in 2006 for US$1.65 billion
- A year after launching YouTube, founders Hurley, Chen and Karim set up camp in a office above a pizzeria in San Mateo
- On average, people watch YouTube for between 10 and 15 minutes a day
- On April 23 2005, the first- ever video uploaded was by founder Karim who had filmed elephants at the San Diego Zoo
- There are more than a billion views a day on YouTube and every minute 24 hours of new content is uploaded onto the site.
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