21 YouTube Facts

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Every minute, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.
YouTube has over a billion users, almost one-third of all people on the Internet.
The First YouTube Video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, featuring its co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
YouTube was founded by 3 former employees of PayPal.
Google bought YouTube for US$1.65 billion in stocks just 18 months after YouTube's creation.
Music video 'Gangnam Style' was so popular, it broke YouTube's view counter, which had to be upgraded.
You can navigate YouTube in more than 75 different languages, covering 95% of the Internet population.
YouTube has a production space in Los Angeles that is free to use if you have 10,000 subscribers.
The woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were creating Google later became the CEO of YouTube
Anne Frank is on YouTube. She was captured on film while leaning out of her window to get a good look of a wedding.
The oldest video of cats on YouTube dates from 1894.
YouTube star Grumpy Cat earned more money than Oscar-Winning Actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 2014.
YouTube is the second largest search engine, right after Google. It's bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask combined
YouTube's early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.
If you search for "Do the Harlem shake" on YouTube, the page itself will do the harlem shake for you.
The most disliked video on YouTube is Justin Bieber's "Baby," with over 4,400,000 dislikes
60% of YouTube's 1,000 most popular videos are blocked in Germany.
YouTube's ten highest-earning channels made anywhere from US$2.5 million to US$12 million in 2015.
At YouTube's headquarters, employees can either take the elevator, stairs or a big slide.
The most searched tutorial on YouTube is "How to Kiss."
Family Guy once used footage from 9-year-old YouTube video in one of its episodes without permission from the owner. The owner's original clip was then removed from Youtube for copyright infringement.