1/13/2017

11 lesser known facts about facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg


1. Facebook is blue because Zuckerberg is color-blind. Zuckerberg suffers from red/green colour blindness, which means the colour he can most easily see is blue.

2. Zuckerberg learnt Chinese in the year 2010 just to communicate with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan's family members.

3. As per a report in Business Insider, Zuckerberg doesn't own a TV.

4. He dropped out of Harvard University to devote himself full-time to Facebook.

5. His annual salary at Facebook is 1 USD.

6. Microsoft and AOL tried to hire him when he was in high school just when he had designed Synapse, a program that used artificial intelligence to learn users' music-listening habits.

7. Zuckerberg turned vegetarian in 2011 and stated that he would only eat the meat of animals that he killed himself.

8. Mark, at the age of 13 had already created a basic computer network for his family, dubbed "Zucknet", which allowed the computers in the family and his father's dental office to send messages to each other through pinging.

9. Mark Zuckerberg holds about 50 patents to his name. The first was issued in November 2004 for the technology behind the Synapse Media Player.

10. He possesses a Hungarian sheepdog named Beast, which has a Facebook page with over 2 million fans.

11. In July 2011, Zuckerberg became the most followed user on Google's social network Google+, surpassing its co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

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