What are some facts about Facebook and Google that not many outsiders know about?

1)The Facebook notification icon which is globe shaped changes its map view with your location.

• access Facebook from the US and countries in Latin America:

• And this is the icon for countries in the Eastern hemisphere:

 

2)Facebook is "Blue" because Mark Zuckerberg suffers Red-Green color blindness.

3)Google owns a bunch of domains that are common misspellings of Google, like gooogle.com , gogle.com, googlr.com and more. Google also owns 466453.com

4) Yahoo  had an option of buying Google for $1 Million, but they refused to buy it. This reluctantly made Larry Page and Sergy Brin to quit their Phd and work full time on Google.

5) Yahoo now had such similar option of buying Facebook for $1 Billion, but this time Mark Zukerberg rejected the offer.

Imagine the position of Yahoo if it would have made these both deals.

6)Facebook's messaging feature was created and implemented in one of the company's first hackathons.