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• The average American is on Facebook 30 minutes every day. Over half a million comments are posted every 60 seconds, and nearly 140,000 photos are uploaded each minute. An average of more than 1.6 billion people worldwide log in every day.

• Facebook employs more than 43,000 people, and its second quarter 2019 earnings were $16.6 billion.

• There has been much criticism of Facebook, most prominently for data harvesting and psychologically profiling its users, for which Zuckerberg was called to testify before the U.S. Congress. The site has been criticized for enabling cyberbullying and cyberstalking. Researchers now use the term “F.A.D.” or “Facebook Addiction Disorder” to refer to compulsive use of Facebook. Spam and phishing are common occurrences along with privacy and security issues. The allowing of violent content and “fake news” have also been listed as a matter of concern. Studies indicate that more than one-fourth of users use Facebook while driving. Several countries, including Syria, China, and Iran, have banned Facebook.

• The word Instagram was coined from a combination of “instant camera” and “telegram.” The service, which was launched in October, 2010, enabled users to upload photos and videos There were one million registered users within two months. There were 10 million users by the end of the first year, and 1 billion mid-2019. More than 500 million people use Instagram daily. By 2015, more than 40 billion photos had been uploaded to the service.

• Instagram was the brainchild of Stanford graduates Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Krieger made the site’s very first post on July 16, 2010, a photo of South Beach Harbor’s Pier 38. Systrom’s first post was made the same day featuring a dog in Mexico beside Systrom’s girlfriend’s foot.

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• Out of Instagram’s Top 20 most “liked” photos of 2020, Kylie Jenner grabbed seven of those spots. Three of Selena Gomez’ photos were in the Top 20. But these ladies have not seized the most-liked Instagram picture of all time. That honor belongs to a photo of an egg originally posted on January 5, 2019. Jenner had set the previous record of 18 million likes, but the egg has garnered upwards of 59 million likes.

• Instagram’s most-followed person is Portuguese professional footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, with close to 200 million followers. Ronaldo has been ranked as the world’s highest-paid athlete, and has an estimated net worth of $450 million. Singer Ariana Grande is the mostfollowed female on Instagram with more than 170 million followers.

• Facebook purchased Instagram in April of 2012 for the sum of $1 billion in cash and stock. A week before the sale, Instagram was released for Android phones, and received more than a million downloads in less than a day. The company was managed by Systrom and Krieger until 2018 when the pair resigned.

Krieger was 32 years old at the time of the sale, and Systrom, 34. Systrom’s net worth is estimated in the $1.1 billion range.

• Before Facebook was all the rage, there was MySpace, which was the world’s largest social networking site from 2005 to 2008 and was the most visited website in the United States in 2006. In August, 2003, several employees of the internet marketing company eUniverse worked together to create the first version of MySpace, which enabled users to customize and personalize their pages. ...continued

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Keep the Skeeters Down in Your Neighborhood The Grand Forks Health Department maintains a comprehensive larvicide program. Crews have identified and mapped more than 1,200 sites around our community.

These sites are inspected and treated with public health pesticides on a regular schedule. But we still need help from homeowners to identify and eliminate breeding sites on private property. We do not have the resources to inspect all private property in the city.

You can help by inspecting your property and getting rid of any standing water. If you have a large site that cannot be drained or a swimming pool that is not being used or may not be used until later this summer, contact the Health Dept. at 701-787-8110 and we’ll inspect and treat the water with a product designed to prevent mosquitoes from hatching. This service is free for citizens with property located within the City of Grand Forks.

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• When Facebook overtook MySpace in the rankings in 2008, MySpace took steps to redefine the site, focusing on entertainment, such as music, movies, and celebrities rather than social networking, with the slogan “The best in music and culture. All in one place.” It now ranks about 1,700th in total web traffic in America.

• Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown were students at Stanford University in 2011 when they launched the social media site known as “Picaboo,” a site on which pictures and messages were only available for a short time before becoming inaccessible. In 2012, the app was renamed Snapchat.

• Talk about the value of persistence! Spiegel had worked on 34 failed projects before creating Snapchat. The idea came about when a friend of his regretted sending a photo, and wished it would disappear. In 2015, Evan Spiegel became the world’s youngest billionaire.

• Snapchat contains creative tools that enable the user to edit the photo and add colorful patterns, visual effects, and stickers. In 2016, the company introduced Spectacles, glasses with a built-in camera that can record 10 seconds of video and post it online via a paired smartphone.

• As of the end of 2019, Snapchat had more than 210 million daily active users, posting a total of more than 3.5 billion snaps per day. The average user will send about 34 snaps a day. Video views average 10 billion daily. About 27% of American adults use Snapchat.

• In October, 2013, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg attempted to acquire Snapchat with an offer of $1 billion. When the offer was rejected, Zuckerberg came back with a $3 billion offer, which was also declined. The very next day, the offer had increased to $4 billion, also declined. Snapchat’s 2019 second quarter earnings came to $388 million.

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• Who says you have to be human to serve your country? Between 2001 and 2009, a goat called William ("Billy") Windsor was part of the 1st Battalion Infantry Unit of The Royal Welsh, with the title of lance corporal, no less. Although he was briefly demoted to fusilier following "unacceptable behavior" at Queen Elizabeth's official birthday celebrations, he eventually saw the error of his ways and regained his more esteemed rank.

• Actor Brad Pitt chipped out pieces of his own front teeth to play the role of Tyler Durden in the movie "Fight Club."

• And speaking of teeth ... in the American Civil War, soldiers were required to have at least four opposing front teeth so they could open a gunpowder pouch. Some draftees had their front chompers removed to avoid service.

• What's in a name? Depends on where you're from.

When the Coca-Cola Company was ready to import to China, it needed a moniker that fit with the majority of that country's spoken languages. The original choice, "Kekoukela," sounded phonetically similar, but in certain dialects translates to "bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax." Further research yielded a far more satisfactory solution, "Kekoukele," meaning "tasty fun."

• Scientists studying a deadly disease transmitted from camels also found that the animals contained the pathogens from which the common cold was born. Do we now know whom to blame?

• As many as 35% of people who hire a professional cleaning service admitted to cleaning up before the help arrives.

• Native Southerners might well be surprised to learn that the word "y'all" dates to 1631! It was first used by the English scholar William Lisle in the sentence, "The captive men of strength I gave to you, the weaker sold; and this y'all know is true." *** Thought for the Day: "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." -- Helen Keller © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• The director’s choice for the role of time-traveling teenager Marty McFly was Michael J. Fox, but the 24-year-old TV star was committed to the sitcom “Family Ties,” and the show’s producer refused to allow Fox any time off. Eric Stoltz was tapped to play Marty, and he worked for five weeks of filming. The director felt that Stoltz wasn’t the right fit, If you want information on the top-grossing film of 1985, and a deal was worked out where Fox worked on you’ve come to the right place! Tidbits takes you back to both “Family Ties” and “Back to the Future.” the future to investigate this classic film.

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• “Back to the Future” almost didn’t get produced. The • Fox began filming “Family Ties” each day at 9:30, leaving the Paramount lot at 6:00 PM, heading to script was rejected an incredible 40 times before UniUniversal Studios where he would work on “Fuversal Pictures finally bit on it. One studio executive ture” from 6:30 PM through the night. He grabbed recommended a name change to “Spaceman from Pluthree hours of sleep before the Paramount driver to,” causing producer Steven Spielberg to laugh in his picked him up at 9:00 to ferry him back to “Family face.

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• Early drafts of the script called for the time machine to be a refrigerator, but when it was feared that kids would • Lea Thompson, who played Marty’s 47-year-old mother was just 10 days older than Michael J. Fox, become trapped in refrigerators in an imitation of the and Fox was three years older than Crispin Glover, movie, it was changed it to a DeLorean DMC-12. The who played his father. Lea Thompson spent three DeLorean Motor Company, which manufactured the hours a day in the makeup chair to convert her stainless-steel-paneled cars with the gull-wing doors, 23-year-old face into a 47-year-old one. had gone bankrupt in late 1982. After filming began, the studio received an offer of $75,000 from the Ford Mo- • Filming finished up on April 20, 1985, and the crew tor Company if they would use a Mustang for the time set a record for post-production, with the movie hitmachine, an offer that was refused. ting theaters just 9 ½ weeks later on July 3. “Back to the Future” spent 11 weeks in the Number One • In the movie, the DeLorean is powered by plutonium slot, and was the year’s top-grossing film. Receivthat Dr. Emmett Brown obtained from Libyan terrorists ing three Oscar nominations, the film won the award in exchange for the promise of building a nuclear bomb. for Best Sound Effects Editing.

When the terrorists return, they shoot Doc Brown, and Marty narrowly escapes in the DeLorean, which has • The movie’s two sequels were shot consecutivebeen set to November 5, 1955. Marty is transported from ly during an 11-month period, breaking for three 1985 to 1955, with no plutonium to return. In 1955, he weeks in between. Part II was released in Novemencounters his own parents at Marty’s own age. Marty ber, 1989, the third highest-grossing film of the searches for Doc in order to warn him of the Libyans in year, followed just six months later by Part III. Part the future, and also attempts to improve the future of his III grossed less than one-third of the revenue of the parents’ lives. original movie.

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• On June 18, 1812, the day after the Senate and the House of Representatives vote to declare war against Great Britain, President James Madison signs the declaration into law -- and the War of 1812 begins. It was partly in response to the forcible induction of American seaman into the British Royal Navy.

• On June 15, 1846, Great Britain and the U.S. sign the Oregon Treaty, establishing the U.S.-Canadian border as the 49th parallel from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Georgia.

• On June 16, 1884, the first roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island, in New York. Known as a switchback railway, the roller coaster traveled at approximately 6 mph and cost a nickel to ride.

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• On June 19, 1905, some 450 people attend the opening day of the world's first nickelodeon, located in Pittsburgh. The storefront theater boasted 96 seats and charged each patron 5 cents to view live vaudeville acts as well as short films.

• On June 17, 1958, the Second Narrows Bridge, being built to connect eastern and northern Vancouver in western Canada, collapses, killing 59 workers. The bridge rose 175 feet above the water.

• On June 20, 1975, "Jaws," a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in theaters. The story of a great white shark that terrorizes a New England resort town became an instant blockbuster and the highest-grossing film ever at the time.

• On June 21, 1982, John W. Hinckley, Jr., who on March 30, 1981, shot President Ronald Reagan outside a Washington, D.C. hotel, was found not guilty of attempted murder by reason of insanity. Hinckley's defense argued that he was obsessed with the 1976 film "Taxi Driver" and the lead actress, Jodie Foster. Hinckley was released from the mental institution in 2018.

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• Four young men launched Twitter in July of 2006, and within six years, the service had more than 100 million users posting 340 million tweets a day. By 2019, there were upwards of 330 million active users worldwide, with 68 million of those in the U.S. During one quarter of 2019, advertising revenue totaled $727 million.

• For its first six months of operation, Twitter was known as “twttr,” partly because the domain name “twitter.com” was already in use. The founders’ definition of the word “twitter” was “a short burst of inconsequential information.”

The first tweet, sent by one of the co-founders, read “just setting up my twttr.” Until 2017, there was a 140-character limit on tweets, replaced by the new maximum of 280. The company created the “hashtag” to categorize messages by topic, words, or phrases.

• In 2017, Katy Perry was the first to achieve 100 million Twitter followers, a number that has now surpassed 108 million. Barack Obama leads the pack with upwards of 113 million.

• LinkedIn was launched in May, 2003 as a site for professional networking. Job and career posts are listed by both job seekers and employers looking for candidates. Users create profiles, post resumes, and establish “connections” to each other. After six years, the network had over 55 million users. Today, LinkedIn has more than 673 million members in 200 countries, with more than 70% of that number from outside the U.S. The company is now a subsidiary of Microsoft and employs 15,000 full-time personnel.

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• Three PayPal employees conceived the idea of a video website in early 2005. The trio opened up shop in the garage of one of the co-founders, and on April 23, 2005, the first video was uploaded to YouTube by co-founder Jawed Karim, a clip entitled, “Me at the Zoo,” chronicling his visit to the San Diego Zoo. The first words spoken on YouTube were, “All right, so here we are in front of the elephants.” Within the first month after its creation, YouTube had 3 million viewers. By the third month, February, 2006, that amount 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. One of YouTube’s most positive success stories was that of 2014’s Ice Bucket Challenge to benefit the ALS Association. More than 150 countries participated by uploading videos to YouTube, with more than a billion views, eventually generating over $220 million for the research of Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

• A Beijing, China company, ByteDance, started TikTok in 2016, calling it Douyin. TikTok users produce and share short videos of 15 to 60 seconds, using the site’s background music, usually for lip-sync, comedy, or talent videos. Nearly 70% of TikTok users are 16 to 24 years old. There are more than 800 million people worldwide using TikTok, with 30 million of these in the U.S. ByteDance, which was founded in 2012, is now valued at over $75 billion.

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