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YOUTUBE (continued): • The first words spoken on YouTube from Karim’s San Diego Zoo clip were, “All right, so here we are in front of the elephants.” To date, more than 38 million people have viewed that first video. • When YouTube registered its domain name in 2005, an Ohio company named Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment was already registered with a similar name, Utube.com. The equipment company’s site became flooded with traffic from people trying to spell YouTube, and promptly sued YouTube for damaging its business, claims that were later dismissed. • Within the first month after its creation, YouTube had 3 million viewers. By February, 2006, that amount had tripled, and was up to 30 million visitors by July of that year. After one year in operation, 38 million viewers had visited the YouTube site. • The first YouTube video to be viewed a million times was Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho’s Nike ad entitled “Touch of Gold.” That occurred in September, 2005, just five months after YouTube’s first video was uploaded. • In early 2006, the company abandoned the garage, moving their headquarters to office space above a pizzeria. While here, they took on the company’s first 20 employees. Hurley was the CEO and Chen was the Chief Technology Officer. Karim moved on to the computer science graduate program at Stanford University. • Just 18 months after the first video was uploaded, Google purchased YouTube in October, 2006 for $1.65 billion in stocks, with Chen receiving $310 million, Hurley, $334 million, and $66 million in stocks going to Karim. YouTube was actually losing money at the time of the purchase, about $500,000 a month, but Google realized the enormous advertising potential and buttoned up the sale. (continued on next page)

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• By 2009, there were 1 billion daily video views, about 11,600 views per second. Less than a year later, the views per day surpassed 2 billion per day, 23,150 per second. By 2012, there were 4 billion daily video views. • It’s estimated that approximately 500 hours of video content are uploaded to YouTube every minute. YouTube had about 176 million viewers in 2016, with that number expected to reach 181 million during 2017. It’s the second-largest search engine, after Google, bigger than Bing, Yahoo, and ASK combined. It accounts for about 22% of all social media visits, just slightly lower than Facebook’s 24%. • The most subscribed channel on YouTube once belonged to a Swedish man named Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie. With 55 million subscribers, Kjellberg is a comedian who provides commentary to various video games as he plays them. His annual income last year was around $15 million. While some viewers love his goofy jokes and energetic style, others find his videos “obnoxious and filled with profanity.” He was dropped from YouTube’s preferred channels in February, 2017 for including anti-Semitic jokes in his site’s content. • South Korean singer PSY holds the record for the most watched YouTube video of all time. When “Gangnam Style” was released in 2012, it became the first video to reach 100 million views, accomplished in 52 days. • More than 50 videos have surpassed one billion views, with four of those exceeding 2 billion. The fastest video to reach a billion views was singer Adele’s “Hello” music video, which reached the mark in 87 days. “Hello” reached 100 million in only five days. Only one artist, Justin Bieber, has four YouTube videos that exceed one billion views. • While music videos are very popular on YouTube, nearly half of those who uploaded their own videos posted a video of a pet or animal. Even more than that post videos of family and (continued on next page)

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9. Look in the Attic A well-functioning attic is crucial to protecting a home. If your home inspector can get into the attic without trampling insulation, you can often learn a lot about the home and any renovations or repairs. One very common inspection red flag is improper venting of bathroom fans into the attic (and not extending the vent all the way through the roof). If your bathroom fan is venting directly into the attic, all it's doing is sending moisture and humid air into the attic where it causes mold, rot or worse. It's also not up to code. If possible, have your inspector check for attic air leaks. While you can fix these attic air leaks, an attic with air leaks could have potential issues with insulation, moisture, mold or worse. 10. Give the Plumbing a Try Losing water pressure or dealing with a slow drain can be indicators of larger plumbing issues. Make sure bathtubs and shower pans are leak-tested. And have the home inspector inspect the water main and shutoff points (very useful knowledge if/when you take ownership of the property).

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SNOWDONIA HAWKWEED (cont’d) • After the 1953 sighting, there were no hawkweeds spotted until 1967. It was believed the plant had become extinct. A huge increase in the amount of sheep grazing in the area was thought to be the reason, as sheep seem to love the taste of these little plants. An extensive search was launched in 2000, but the team combed the mountainside to no avail. • Another explanation has been offered for the hawkweed’s near extinction, that of the increase in acid rain, which could have caused soil acidification in this rainy area. • Botanists had given up on finding any more hawkweed specimens, when, in 2002, one lone surviving plant clinging to life on a rocky outcrop of a mountainside in the Cwm Idwal National Nature Reserve was discovered by a Welsh team of botanists in the same area as it was first discovered and the same as its last sighting in 1967. It wasn’t known if the newlydiscovered plant had been growing there for many years or if it had sprouted from buried seed. • Sheep grazing was immediately eliminated from the nature reserve where the plant was found, in hopes of promoting the recovery of the hawkweed. The botanists took two flower heads containing about 50 seeds back with them to attempt cultivations at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Twenty-six seedlings were cultivated from that take, with a restocking program as a possible proposal. Five flower heads were left on the plant, hoping the plant would self-propagate through wind-dispersed seeds. Falling rock presents a natural unpredictable risk to the one surviving plant’s survival.

11. Furnace and Water Heater Beyond making sure the furnace and water heater work properly, you should find out how old each one is and the last time each received service. Replacing a furnace or water heater can be pricey, so if either one is in need of replacing soon, you need to keep that in mind while putting together your offer on the property. You can also get a feel for how the furnace is cared for by checking the furnace filter. A filter that's in obvious need of changing can hint at other postponed or ignored maintenance. 12. Don't Forget the Basement An unfinished basement will give a lot of clues to the condition of the house and foundation. Look for cracks, signs of repairs and water issues. A crack in the slab or wall is not always a deal-breaker, but understanding why a crack appeared is important. Your home inspector will be able to tell you if anything needs further inspection from a structural engineer.

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