As the much liked video-sharing site turns seven today, we look at some interesting facts related to it. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/may/youtube123.jpg" style="width: 487px; height: 345px; " /> YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal YouTube&#39;s early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California The first YouTube video was entitled &lsquo;Me at the zoo&rsquo;, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005. In October 2006, Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion. &lsquo;Charlie Bit My Finger&rsquo;, which was uploaded on May 22, 2007, is a viral video that has received the most views of any user-generated YouTube video, with over 450 million views. The clip shows two English brothers &ndash; one-year-old Charlie biting the finger of his brother Harry, aged three. In Time&#39;s list of YouTube&#39;s 50 greatest viral videos of all time, &lsquo;Charlie Bit My Finger&rsquo; was ranked at number one. April Fool joke: On April 1, 2009, when clicking on a video on the main page, the whole page turned upside down. YouTube claimed that this was a new layout! In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of 60 cricket matches of the Indian Premier League. According to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event.

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