Some Interesting Facts On India That You Had No Idea About

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  • India is the world's largest democracy, with 1.2 billion people.

  • 100 million people come to India's Kumbh Mela Festival, the world's biggest gathering of humans.

  • India's Hindu calendar has 6 seasons: spring, summer, monsoon, autumn, winter and prevernal.

  • An Indian man claims he hasn't eaten or drunk for 70 years. After many tests, doctors still don't know how it's possible.

  • The world's biggest family lives together in India: a man with 39 wives and 94 children.

  • A man married a dog in India as atonement.
  • India has the world's lowest meat consumption per person.

  • India has more mobile phones than toilets.
  • Children's Day is celebrated in India on November 14th, 9 months after Valentine's Day.
  • In West Bengal, India, cows must have a Photo ID Card.

  • One woman dies every hour in India because of dowry-related crimes.

  • 70% of all the world's spices come from India.

  • Sex toys are illegal in India.

  • India has the largest slave population in the modern world with over 14 million slaves.
  • 53% of homes in India do not have a lavatory.
  • India has more population than the entire Western Hemisphere of Earth.
  • India's "Go Air" airline only hires female flight attendants because they are lighter, so they save up to US$500,000 per year in fuel.
  • Gleevec, a cancer drug that costs US$70,000 in the U.S. per year, cost just US$2,500 in India because it can't be patented there.

  • A con man in India repeatedly "sold" the Taj Mahal, the Indian parliament and various other heritage sites. He was sentenced to 113 years but managed to escape prison 9 times. The last time, he was 84 years old.
  • Judaism arrived in India 2500 years ago with no recorded instances of anti-Semitism from the local populace ever since.
  • The richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, built a home valued at US$1 billion. It's a 27-story building with 3 helipads, a 6-floor car park, a staff of 600, a 4-storey hanging garden and a cinema.

  • The Golden Temple in India feeds a vegetarian meal to over 100,000 people a day regardless of race, religion and class.
  • Indian housewives hold 11% of the World's Gold. That is more than the reserves of the U.S., IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.

  • In 2009, a doctor in India removed 172,155 stones from a patient's left kidney during a three-hour surgery.
  • In India, many brides use the "Bichiya": a wedding ring for the toe.
  • There's a village in India that produces most bouncers and bodyguards of New Delhi's nightclubs.
  • Only about 1 in 100 marriages in India end in divorce, one of the lowest rates in the world.

  • India has more people using the internet than the entire population of the U.S.

  • During WW2, India produced the largest volunteer Army in world history: over 2.5 million men. At least 38 Indians received the Victoria Cross or the George Cross.
  • The Bengal Tiger is the national animal of India.

  • The village of Shani Shingnapur, India, had no doors, locks or crime for over 400 years until 2010.

  • Farmers in India use Coca-Cola and Pepsi as cheap pesticides, according to the BBC.
  • The Khasi people in Meghalaya, India, grow living bridges with tree roots.
  • India planted nearly 50 million trees in 24 hours on Monday, July 11, 2016, a new Guinness World Record.

  • In India, Snakes are worshipped as gods even today. Many women pour milk on snakes, despite snakes' aversion for it.
  • London has more Indian restaurants than Mumbai or Delhi.

  • The Taj Mahal's white marble exterior is gradually turning yellow due to high levels of air pollution.

  • In some remote Indian villages, babies are dropped from the tops of temples and caught by adults below—it's believed to bring good health.
  • India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages.


 Source : https://www.factslides.com/s-India

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