Some facts about India that will fascinate you!! The Tirupati Balaji temple receives 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. 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 of India. And Africa is a continent. India was the first country in the world to produce steel. The first reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Gujarat by, no not Narendra Modi, but by the Saka king Rudradaman I 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. Indians developed the largest measure of time, known as kalpa, which is nearly 25 billion years. 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. One of the few places which has fused religion and science. In Hindusim, there is a God of Engineers and Architects, Vishwakarma. In India, whenever a section of a bridge or building is completed, He is worshipped. India has 3 biodiversity hotspots, no other country, or even continent except Brazil and Indonesia have more than 2. Indias share of World GDP was earlier 33%, and then fell to 3% during the British Raj. Indias Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia The India-Pakistan World Cup semi-final match in Mohali drew 150 million viewers worldwide. Once a person becomes a Hindu Sadhu, he becomes legally dead and can therefore, can ride trains for free. Cotton was domesticated in India. India in Chinese is pronounced as Yindu(“印度”) The Grand Anicut Dam of the state of Tamil Nadu was built over 2000 years ago and is still standing. In Madhya Pradesh, policemen are given a rise in their salaries if they grow a mustache. India has a better voter turnout than the United States of America. Some may have a misconception that huge dinosaurs never roamed India but Bruhathkayosaurus, according to some, was the largest dinosaur that ever lived. Its remains were found near Trichy, in Tamil Nadu. All the ten stores or outlets which sold the most amount of pizzas, are in India. V.K. Krishna Menon was once described as Indias second most powerful man, second only to the Prime Minister. He was a seasoned diplomat. in 1957, Mr. Menon delivered an 8 hour speech defending Indias stance on Kashmir at the United Nations. This is the longest speech ever in the UN.
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