10 Most Shocking Facts About Facebook


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David Choe, the graffiti artist who painted Facebook’s Palo Alto Office is worth a $200 million

Back in 2005, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asked a little known graffiti artist named David Choe to plaster graffiti all over the social network's Palo Alto office walls. After completion, Choe was offered $60,000 cash by Zuckerberg, which he turned down promptly, instead opted for stock in the budding company. In what is termed as one of the smartest decision in many articles, Choe's stock is now worth $200 million! (Source New York Times)

If Facebook had been a country, it would have been third largest population in the world after India and China

Facebook was incarnated as Facemash but in 2005 the company bought Facebook.com domain name for whopping $200,000 (Source: NDTV)

Facebook has over 900 million active users (Source: The Telegraph)

Over 300 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day. It is home to over 219 billion photos, 4 percent of all the photos ever taken in the history. (Source: The Telegraph)

There are over 30 million Facebook accounts belonging to the dead people. (Forbes)

In 2006, Chris Putnam hacked Facebook and changed thousands of profiles to MySpace style, he was immediately hired by Zuckerberg. (Business Insider)

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