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Facebook
  • Turns out Facebook wasn’t always called Facebook. It originally launched as TheFacebook on thefacebook.com with Zuckerberg claiming he was “Founder, Master and Commander, Enemy of the State”. It didn’t become Facebook.com until 2005 when the fledgling site bought the domain for $200,000 from aboutface.com a web and intranet directory software company
  • Over 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States with all those people spending a whopping 5703 years (3 billion minutes) on the site each day.
  • During the average 20-minute period in 2010, there were: 1,5870,000 wall posts, 2,716,000 photos uploaded and 10,208,000 comments posted. (AllFacebook.com)
  • The website is built on PHP-MySQL and is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world
  • In April 2006, revenue was rumored to be over $1.5 million per week
  • The company already rejected a $975 million offer for the site
  • Facebook is valued at 8 billion according to Peter Thiel
  • It currently hosts over 1.7 Billion photos
  • Facebook is the 5th most valuable US Internet company, yet with only $150 million in annual revenue.
  • With this success, Zuckerberg (founder), Moskowitz and Hughes moved out to Palo Alto for the summer and rented a sublet. A few weeks later, Zuckerberg ran into the former cofounder of Napster, Sean Parker. Parker soon moved in to Zuckerberg’s apartment and they began working together. Parker provided the introduction to their first investor, Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and managing partner of the Founders Fund. Thiel invested $500,000 into Facebook.
  • 75 percent of Brand ‘Likes’ on Facebook come from advertisements. (Mashable)
  • More than 250 million people use Facebook Connect every month. (Facebook)
  • College-aged kids (18-24) made up the fastest growing segment of users on Facebook in 2010. (AllFacebook.com)
  • Chicago was the fastest growing city on Facebook in terms of usage in 2010 (Houston was a close second). (AllFacebook.com)
  • Indonesia has the second largest population on Facebook

February
  • February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon

Ferdinand, Franz
  • Franz Ferdinand was killed.. remember that the guys death partly caused the World War I (WWI). Anyway, his death was almost unavoidable. After an attempted assasination using a bomb failed, (because the bomb hit the rear mud flap of the car Ferdinand was in and bounced away) authorities decided to change the route of Ferdinands tour… but failed to inform the driver of the car. And so, unfortunately, at one stage, the driver took a wrong turn and drove into an alley. While reversing out, Princip (killer) came and shot Ferdinand and his wife at a distance of 4-5 feet killing them. Ferdinand brought his wife to Serejavo to celebrate their anniversary. (And you thought you had a bad day). Read more here

Finagle’s Law
  • Finagle’s Law was the one that went, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” Not Murphy’s Law

fingernail
  • Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails

fire
  • You can start a fire using ice. (think of a magnifying glass)

fire alarm
  • in 2008, Japan invented a silent wasabi fire alarm that wafts wasabi vapour. In a test, 93% of occupants woke up within 2 minutes.

fired
  • Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down — hence the expression “to get fired”

firefly
  • A firefly is a type of beetle
  • 90% of the firefly’s energy is converted to light, whereas only 10% of a light bulb’s energy in converted to light
  • Some species of fireflies in Malaysia can synchronize their flashes in large groups

firehouse
  • The reason firehouse stairways are circular is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor but figured out how to walk up straight staircases. (unsure)


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