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Do you know these unusual but true facts about Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg?
This genious young man has inspired every single person on this planet and changed the
whole world’s communication.
• When he was at the age of 12, he created a messaging program and his father used it in his
dental offce.
• His parents hired a computer tutor to work with the young Zuckerberg, but the tutor said that
it was diffcult for him to teach Mark because he was a genious.
• Microsoft wanted Mark to work with them when he was in high school after he created
“Synopse”. It was a programme that used artifcial intelligence to learn user’s music-listening
habits.
• In 2010, Zuckerberg was “Time” magazine’s “Person of the Year”. In December 2016,
Zuckerberg was ranked 10th on Forbes list of “The World’s Most Powerful People”.
• Zuckerberg was not a fan of “the Social Network”, the movie about the birth of Facebook
because the details of the flm were not true.
• In 2014 Zuckerberg donated $25 million to fght against the ebola virus epidemic in West
Africa.
• He has 220.000 Twitter followers but he’s only tweeted 19 times in four years.
• He owns a Hungarian sheepdog named Beast who has a Facebook page with 1,5 million
fans.
• Zuckerberg is colour blind. He sees the colour blue best and he cannot see the colour “red”
and “green”. That’s why Facebook is mostly blue.
• He wears the same gray Facebook T-shirt almost every day because he
doesn’t want to lose time in front of the wardrobe in the morning as he is very
busy.
• He is a vegetarian and once he said he will only eat meat if he kills the
animal himself.

Answer the question.
What fascinates you the most about Zuckerberg?
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