Mark Zuckerberg is in India for his Townhall Q&A on October 28. Here are 10 little known facts about the founder of Facebook.

1. Mark Zuckerberg is so busy that he wears the same gray Facebook T-shirt almost every day because he says it saves him time in the morning.

Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: Reuters)

2. Despite having over 335,000 Twitter followers, Mark Zuckerberg has only tweeted 19 times. Clearly, Facebooking is more his thing.

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3. Ever wondered why Facebook has that all-blue colour scheme? It’s because Zuckerberg suffers from red-green colourblindness – as a result of which he sees the colour blue best!

Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: iStock)

4. Geniuses begin early. Zuckerberg co-developed a music app called Synapse Media Player when he was in school. Tech giants Microsoft and AOL wanted to hire him but he chose to join Harvard University.

Photo: Facebook/MarkZuckerberg

5. At 23 years of age, Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in the world in the year 2008, according to a Forbes estimate. He was ranked 785 on the World’s Billionaires list.

Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: iStock)

6. On his application to Harvard University, Zuckerberg listed French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek as languages he could read and write. His cultural versatility is impressive!

Photo: Facebook/MarkZuckerberg

7. Zuckerberg evidently likes living his life by axioms of former geniuses. Case in point? His favorite quote is by Albert Einstein and it says: “Make things as simple as possible but no simpler”.

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8. Zuckerberg is a dog lover and owns a Hungarian sheepdog named Beast, who has a Facebook page with 2 million fans!

Photo: facebook/beastthedog

9. Bet you didn’t know how romantic the star founder could be – in order to be able to communicate with his then girlfriend (now wife) Priscilla Chan’s family members, Zuckerberg learned Chinese in 2010!

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10. You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. Go on! Try for yourself!

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Published: 14 May 2015,07:22 AM IST

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