10 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT YOUTUBE

Youtube is the world's most popular video sharing website b a distance.Most of you know that it is a video sharing website owned by google where users upload, view, and share video, but what you don't know about YouTube is what this article is all about.

1. You Tube is the masterminded of chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. They created it in 2005 when they were all employees at pay-pal.



2. As mentioned above, the three founders of YouTube were PayPal employees. They used the bonuses during the eBay buyout of PayPal.


3. YouTube was supposed to be dating website, but destiny had other plans. We aren't complaining!


4. Every minute, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.



5. Google bought YouTube for US$1.65 billion in stocks just 18 months after YouTube's creation.



6. Music video "Gangnam Style" was so popular, it broke YouTube's View counter, which had to be upgraded. 


7. You can navigate YouTube in more than 75 different languages, covering 95% of the Internet population.

8. YouTube has a production space in Los Angeles that is free of use if you have 10,000 subscribers.

9. 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.


10. YouTube star Grumpy Cat earned more money than Oscar-Winning Actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 2014. 


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