Amazing Facts About India

Amazing Facts About India

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1. Around a100 million years ago, India was an island.
2. India’s name is derived from the “Indus” river.
3. Indus Valley Civilization is the world’s oldest civilization.
4. India has the world’s third largest active army, after China and USA.
5. The Tirupati- Balaji Temple and the Kashi- Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca altogether.
6. Every 12 years, a religious gathering called the Kumbh- Mela occurs in India. It is the world’s largest gathering of people.
7. Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
8. India has more mosques (300,000 mosques) than any other nation in the world.
9. India has third largest Muslim population in the world.
10. Takshila is said to be the first ever university in the world; it started around 700 BC.
11. Today, India has the world’s largest school in terms of students, the City Montessori School in Lucknow. It has more than 45 thousand students.
12. Indian Railways employs more than 1.3 million people, that is more than the population of many nations.
13. More than 54 crore people voted in the 2014 General Election – more people than the population of USA, UK, Australia and Japan combined.
14. Number of births in India, every year, is more than the total population of Australia, and many other nations.
15. India has the largest English speaking population in the world.
16. India’s first rocket was brought on cycle and a satellite on bullock cart. And despite budgetary constraints, India’s space program is one of the top 5 space programs in the world.
17. In 2004, 200 women took law in their own hands and came to the court armed with vegetable knives and chili powder and murdered on the court floor, a serial rapist – Akku Yadav. Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder.
18. English actor Sir Ben Kingsley’s birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji and he is of Indian descent.
19. Lonar -Lake, a salt-water lake in Maharashtra, was created by a meteor hitting the Earth and is one of its kinds in India.
20. In a village called Shani Shingnapur in Maharashtra, people have been living in houses with no doors for generations. This is because they believe that whoever steals anything from this place will incur the wrath of Shani god and will have to pay for his/her sins very dearly. There is no police station in this village either.
21. Magnetic Hill is a gravity hill located near Leh in Ladakh, India. The hill is alleged to have magnetic properties strong enough to pull cars uphill and force passing aircraft to increase their altitude in order to escape magnetic interference.
22. Viswanathan Anand is the first player in Chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: knockout, tournament, and match.
23. Chess was invented in India.
24. Buttons were invented in India.
25. We also invented the ruler; shampoo; the number’ Zero’; the value of pi; trigonometry, algebra, calculus; cataract surgery; plastic surgery; diamond mining and water on the moon.
26. Until 1986, the only place where diamonds had been officially found was in India.
27. India has banned all captive dolphins, stating that dolphins should be viewed of non- human persons.
28. India’s tech capital, Bangalore, has increased its office supply by six times since 2006, and now has more Grades-A offices than Singapore.
29. India is the largest producer of films in the world.
30. India is the largest milk producer in the world.
31. India leads the world with the most murders (32,719) per year, with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.
32. To avoid polluting the elements (fire, earth, water, air), followers of Zoroastrianism in India don’t bury their dead, but instead leave bodies in buildings called “Towers of Silence” for the vultures to pick clean. After the bones dry, they are swept into a central well.
33. Karmanasa- River in India is considered to be a cursed river and it is believed that touching its water would ruin one’s plans. There’s hardly any development along this river. People around this river just eat dry fruits because cooking food would require water!
34. Two major religions, Buddhism and Jainism, were established in India.
35. Chail in Himachal Pradesh, is the highest cricket pitch in the world. It is situated at an elevation of 2444 meters (above the sea level).
36. The India-Pakistan World Cup semi-final match in Mohali drew 150 million viewers worldwide.
37. The first Granite Temple of the world, the Brihadeswara –Temple, is situated in Tamil Nadu. It was built during the 11th century, in only five years.
38. Around the 17th century, India was one of the richest countries in the world.
39. Today, India is the world’s third largest economy.
40. India is one of the only three countries that makes supercomputers (the US and Japan are the other two).
41. The world’s largest road network is in India—over 1.9 million miles of roads cover the country.
42. India has the largest amount of vegetarians in the world, so much so that Pizza Hut had to open their first pure vegetarian restaurant in the country, and KFC had to introduce a “vegetarian” menu for India, and so did McDonalds, the world’s largest fast-food manufacturer.
43. India grows 1.2 million tons of mangoes every year, weight equivalent to 80,000 blue whales.
44. India gave the world ‘Yoga’,  that has existed for more than 5,000 years. Also Martial Arts was first introduced in India.
45. May 26, is celebrated as the Science Day in Switzerland in honor of former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, because on the day, Kalam visited the country.
46. The world’s biggest family lives in India. One man with 39 wives and 94 children.
47. India is the world’s largest importer of arms, but India has never invaded or attacked any country