Some Unknown Facts about India.

Mindblowing facts about India:

• 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.
• There 2.5 million of Zero Rupee bank notes in India. They are "paid" in protest by angry citizens to government functionaries who solicit bribes.

• 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.
• 70% of all the world's spices come from India.
• The people of North Sentinel Island, India, are among the last people to remain virtually untouched by modern civilization.

• To earn enough to buy a Big Mac, the average person in India has to work almost 6 hours.
• There's an experimental township in India founded in 1968 and called Auroville, where citizens are from all over the world and there's no money or religion.

• In India, a polling station is set up in a forest for a lone voter in every election since 2004.
• Between 100,000 and 500,000 abortions per year continue to be performed in India solely because the fetus is female.
• In India, there is a vigilante group called the "Love Commandos" that offers protection from harassment to couples from different castes who fall in love.
• 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.

• 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.

There is a gypsy tribe in India that celebrates death as one of the happiest events in their lives, while treating births with great grief.

• Largest Religious gathering in the world 75–100 million people.
• In India, it is not uncommon to consume marijuana in milkshake form.
• Highest cricket ground
• Chail cricket ground at Himachal
• Judaism arrived in India 2500 years ago with norecorded instances ofanti-Semitism from the local populace ever since.
• Shampoo
• Concept of shampooing was invented in India.
• Moon- water
• Indians discovered water on moon.
• India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
• India is the world's Largest democracy.
• India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
• India invented the number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta
• There are 300,000 active mosques in India , more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.
• Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine July 1987.
• Chess was invented in India.
• India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.
• India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
• The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is theworld's largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.
• Richest religious organisation in the world is Sripathmanabaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

• Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
• Takshila is said to be the first every university in the world; it started around 700 BC.
• India has the world’s largest school in terms of students, the City Montessori School in Lucknow. It has more than 45 thousand students
• More than 54 crore people voted in the 2014 General Election – more people than the population of USA, UK, Australia and Japan combined.
• Despite budgetary constraints, India’s space program is one of the top 5 space programs in the world.
• Indian space research organisation is the most cost-effective space reaserch organisation.
• In a village called Shani Shingnapur in Maharashtra, people have been living in houses with no doors for generations.
• Kalaripayttu is considered as the mother of martial arts. Kung fu evolved out of Kalaripayattu.

• Plastic surgery was invented in India.
• Diamonds where first mined in India.
• Indian metallurgy was the most developed until 19th century.
• India is the largest consumer of gold.
• Mathematics was highly developed in India. In fact Indians invented Trignometry, Calculus, Algebra etc.
• Invented cataract surgery.
• India is the largest producer of films in the world.
• India is the largest milk producer in the world.
• 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.
• India's Hindu calendar has 6 seasons: spring, summer, monsoon, autumn, winter and prevernal.
• It's illegal for foreigners to take Indian currency (rupees) out of India.
• 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.
• India has the world's lowest meat consumption per person.
• India has more mobile phones than toilets.
• In West Bengal, India, cows must have a Photo ID Card.

• One woman dies every hour in India because of dowry-related crimes.
• India has the largest amount of vegetarians in the world.
• Pizza Hut had to open their first pure vegetarian restaurant in the country.

-Iyaz