What are some of the most mind-blowing facts about India? # The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined. # Every 12 years, a religious gathering called the Kumbh Mela occurs. This event has an administration of its own and is classified as a district for the time it lasts. It is the worlds largest gathering of people and is visible from space. It has its own District Magistrate. # India is the only country in the world which has both tigers and lions in the wild. Despite having a majority of Hindus, India has more mosques than any other nation in the world. # India has the worlds largest school in terms of pupils, the City Montessori School, which has nearly 45 thousand pupils. # Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun before any other astronomer. He said that the earth took 365.258756484 days. # Varanasi is Asias oldest continuously inhabited city. # Only Africa is ahead of India in terms of linguistic, genetic and cultural diversity. And Africa is a continent. # India was the first country in the world to produce steel. # Rabindranath Tagore has written the national anthems of India and Bangladesh (Jan Gana Man and Amar Sonar Bangla). # Veterinary science was developed in India. # Indian Railways employs over 1 million people. Thats more than the entire population of many nations. # The worlds largest film studio is Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad. # Cricket may be a religion now, but India has won 6 gold medals in field hockey back to back at the Olympics and a total of 8 golds. Talk about domination. A nation losing 5-0 to India was considered brilliant. # India has 3 biodiversity hotspots, no other country, or even continent except Brazil and Indonesia have more than 2. # Indias Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia. #India #ProudToBeAnIndian #VandeMatram #Jaihind
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 10:18:41 +0000
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