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Today, everyone's favorite video hosting site, YouTube, is turning seven years old. To celebrate its birthday, it has hosted a video "on itself" (in more ways than one) detailing some of the site's most recent milestones and released some stunning new statistics. While it used to be that YouTube was home to an additional 48 hours of footage every minute at its sixth birthday, and 60 hours per minute at the beginning of this year, the video giant is now up to a whopping 72 hours of new footage every minute, marking an utterly impressive all-time high.

Seven years ago today, YouTube got its first content, a very unassuming 19 second video about how elephants have "really, really long trunks, and that’s cool." Entitled "Me At The Zoo," the clip was uploaded way back in 2007 and features -- along with some elephants -- YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim. In that time, the video has amassed some 7,490,607 views, a number that pales in comparison to newer classics like Rebecca Black's Friday, which picked up nearly 30 million in 7 months, or what purports to be the original Nyan Cat video, which managed 71 million in a year.

YouTube just keeps getting more and more viewers. As of today, Reuters reports that YouTube now gets 4 billion pageviews per day, up from 3 billion last May. As if that weren't enough, YouTube users are now uploading one hour of footage each second, just edging out the previous record of two full days every minute. That's a new norm of 60 hours uploaded per minute to the old 48 hours uploaded per minute for any of you out there who didn't feel like solving that little word problem.