What are some of the interesting facts about India?

 So, I have listed some of the Incredible and amazing facts that most of Us don't know.

INDIA. There is significant diversity between the people of India. We speak diverse languages, worship multiple gods and still, we all have the same spirit of India, we are running through all parts of our nation binding us together. We possess great unity in diversity, it is the country where diversity exists with great unity and peace.

1. India never attacked any nation in her last 100000 years of history.

2. Varanasi, otherwise called Benaras, was classified "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C. furthermore, is the oldest, continuously inhabited city on the planet today.

3. Martial Arts were initially originated in India and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.

4. It is claimed that the game of chess was introduced in India. One of the most interesting facts about India, the game of chess can be recorded back some 1,500 years.

5. Algebra, Trigonometry, and Calculus are subjects, which were founded in India.

6. The Planet's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is constructed from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was constructed in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) throughout the reign of Rajaraja Chola.

7. The world's first university was founded in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all across the globe studied more than 60 subjects.

8. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medication known to humankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.

9. Yoga possesses its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.

10. The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by (1.6 Billion) 22% of the total world's population.

11. Shampoo was developed in India, The word 'shampoo' itself has been originated from the Sanskrit word 'champu', which indicates to massage.

12. Water on the moon was founded by India. In September 2009, India's ISRO Chandrayaan- 1 using its Moon Mineralogy Mapper discovered water on the moon for the first time.

13. The first rocket was so thin and small that it was carried on a bicycle to the Thumba Launching Station in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

14. Diamonds were first mined in India. Initially, diamonds were only located in the alluvial deposits in Guntur and Krishna District of the Krishna River Delta.

15. The world's most renowned diamonds, Daria-i-Noor, Noor-ul-Ain, Koh-i-Noor, Hope Diamond, Princie Diamond, and Regent Diamond were discovered in the Kollur Mine of Guntur. How many of them exist in India? Zero!

16. Bandra Worli Sealink has steel cables equal to the earth's circumference. It took a total of 2,57,00,000 man-hours for completion and also scales as much as 50,000 African elephants. A true engineering and architectural marvel.

17. The highest cricket ground on the planet. At a height of 2,444 meters, the Chail Cricket Ground in Chail, Himachal Pradesh, is the highest in the world.

18. The Howrah Bridge does not have any nuts and bolts. The entire structure is fixed together utilizing 26,500 tons of steel and a high tensile alloy, Tiscrom, supplied by Tata Steel in 1942.

19. The first country to utilize sugar. India was the first country to originate extraction and purifying techniques of sugar. Several visitors from abroad studied the refining and cultivation of sugar from us.

20. The world's largest producer of milk. India passed the European Union with production leading over 132.4m tonnes in 2014.

21. The highest number of vegetarians in the world. Be it because of religious purposes or individual choices or both, approximately 20-40% of Indians are vegetarians, making it the biggest vegetarian-friendly nation in the world.

22. Science day in Switzerland is dedicated upon Ex-Indian President, APJ Abdul Kalam. The father of India's missile program had visited Switzerland back in 2006.

23. The human calculator. Shakuntla Devi was granted this title after she illustrated the calculation of two 13 digit numbers: 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 which were chosen at random. She answered accurately within 28 seconds.

24. Astronaut Rakesh Sharma answered India looks "Saare Jahaan Se Achcha." from space. Ex-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi asked the first Indian in space, Rakesh Sharma, regarding how India looked from space. His reply was our popular patriotic song, "Saare Jahaan Se Achcha."

25. The Indian national Kabaddi team has won all World Cups. India has won all 5 men's Kabaddi World Cups held till now and has been undefeated throughout these tournaments. The Indian women's team has also won all Kabaddi World Cups held to date.

26. The state of Meghalaya, northeast India’s “abode of clouds”, is the wettest inhabited place on earth. The forested range holds an average rainfall of 12,000 mm (470 inches) of rain each year. That’s nearly 33mm of rain per day.

27. The Himalayas include nine of the world’s ten highest mountains.

28. The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi constructed in the 10th century is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than both Rome and Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple each day.

29. The largest religious structure in the world is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built near the end of the 11th century.

30. Kumbh Mela gathering noticeable from space. The 2011 Kumbh Mela was the biggest gathering of people with over 75 million pilgrims. The gathering was so enormous that the crowd was visible from space.

31. White tigers are only located among Indian tigers. White tigers a sort of Bengal tiger created by a variant in pigmentation. They often grow into larger animals than their orange-colored cousins.

32. India has a spa only for elephants. Elephants take baths, massages, and even food in the Punnathoor Cotta Elephant Yard Rejuvenation Centre in Kerala.

33. India is the largest democracy on the planet, the 7th largest nation in the world, also one of the most ancient civilizations.

34. The number of people traveling in the Indian Railways every day is equal to the population of Australia (more than 23 million).

35. Indian railways are the largest employer on the planet employing over 1.4 million people.

36. A floating post office. India has the biggest postal channels in the world with more than 1,55,015 post offices. A single post office on average attends a population of 7,175 people. The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was introduced in August 2011.

37. A special polling station is established up for an alone voter in the middle of Gir Forest. Mahant Bharatdas Darshandas has done voting since 2004 and during every election after then.

38. Bollywood is the world’s biggest film industry, succeeded by Nigeria’s Nollywood and Hollywood.

39. India produces a tremendous 4700 daily papers in across 300 languages, plus 39,000 journals and weeklies.

40. Mumbai is a city of seven islands. Mumbai as you observe it today, only got into existence in 1784 – when it was combined into a single section by the engineer Hornby Vellard. Before that, it was an archipelago of seven islands – Parel, Mazagaon, Mahim, Colaba, Worli, Old Woman's Island (also known as Little Colaba), and Bombay Island.

41. Mumbai’s dabbawallahs deliver over 200,000 lunch boxes via bike and train from house to office daily. In an intricate system, each person receives the correct tiffin box filled with hot food prepared by their family, and in the afternoon the empty boxes are picked up and returned home again.

42. India now boasts 400,000 millionaires with a combined net worth of nearly US $2.5 billion. Mumbai is home to the country’s largest concentration of millionaires, with some 46,000 residents claiming to be worth millions.

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