YouTube was founded in February 2005 by three former Paypal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.
Youtube was originally made as a platform to share personal videos, but later developed into the largest video sharing website in the world.
Every day, more than 1 billion hours of video watched on Youtube.
There are more than 2 billion users who access YouTube every month.
Videos with the longest duration ever uploaded on YouTube are 571 hours.
Youtube name comes from the word tube which means tube, referring to the television tube used in the past.
Videos with the most number of shows on Youtube are Despacito songs sung by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, with more than 7 billion shows.
YouTube provides options for watching videos with speeds of 0.25x, 0.5x, 1.25x, and 1.5x.
YouTube is reported to have more than 31 million registered channels.
One of the most popular videos on Youtube is Charlie Bit My Finger, where a boy and sister laughed when the boy was bitten by his sister. The video has been watched more than 880 million times.
