• YouTube was founded on February 14th (Valentine’s Day!), 2005 by three ex-PayPal employees.
• The trios behind its creation are Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim and it was originally funded with the bonuses they received when eBay bought out PayPal.
• You would find it hard to believe but initially, YouTube was created to be a video dating site called ‘Tune In Hook Up’.
• The first YouTube video is of co-founder Jawed Karim in front of the elephant enclosure going on about long trunksat San Diego Zoo.
• The longest video on YouTube is 571 hours, 1 minute, and 41 seconds long which is equivalent to 23 days and 19 hours.
• The most popular tutorial that is searched for is ‘How to kiss’ followed by ‘how to tie a tie’.
• The first world leader to create a YouTube channel was the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair who made his account in 2007.
• Undoubtedly, the most popular topic that is searched for in YouTube is music.
• Every minute, over 100 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
• Every April Fool’s Day, YouTube plays a prank on its millions of users.
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