YouTube, much like Facebook and other social media sites, has become
such a large part of our lives that many of us don’t even notice how
much time we spend there. Others out there are happily “TV Free” and get
most of the media and news from the internet via YouTube. Like the
internet itself, if there’s some weird thing you’re into, or something
you want to learn, you can find it on YouTube. As one of the largest
sites on the internet connecting humans with other humans, let’s all
learn and appreciate some Fascinating Facts About YouTube You Should
Know.
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It was created in 2005 by three of the guys who helped start up PayPal.
Steven Chen, Jawed Karim and Chad Hurley knew each other from working at
PayPal, and YouTube was first founded from bonuses from eBay buying out
PayPal. No PayPal bonuses, no Youtube?
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The first video ever uploaded to Youtube
was one of the founders, Jawed Karim, talking about elephants in a zoo
for 18 seconds.
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In 2015, according to YouTube, Americans had watched over 600 MILLION
hours of beauty videos. YouTube and beauty gurus have not only taught
countless women and men how to up their makeup game, they've become a
cultural phenomenon in their own right.
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Each month on YouTube, over 4 billion hours of video - that's almost
half a million year's worth - are viewed. That's every 30 days. Which
sounds crazy until you remember that over a decade's worth of content is
uploaded to YouTube daily.
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The most disliked video in YouTube history is Justin' Beiber's "Baby,"
which, at the time of this writing, is sitting at 7,609,589 dislikes, to
only 6,336,078 likes. Irony: The beibs was discovered on YouTube. Like,
baby, baby, baby, no!
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You can navigate/comment/view YouTube's website in over 75 languages,
which means YouTube is accessible (linguistically, at least) to 95% of
the world's population.
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In 2014, Grumpy Cat earned more money via YouTube than Gwyneth Paltrow
did that year being...Gwyneth Paltorw.
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After Google, YouTube is the second most-used search engine on the
internet. Sorry Bing! If you want to learn about something, videos are
one of the best ways to learn.
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The first
YouTube office was located above a pizza joint in San Mateo, California.
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Over 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
(worldwide).
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