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Here are some mind blowing facts about Indian History :


In 1928, when the Indian Hockey team was on its way to Amsterdam, they played a series of exhibition matches in England. Seeing its caliber England decided not to field a team for the Olympics as “they did not want to lose to a slave country.” - India was still under the British Rule then.


1. India’s 25 richest people have a combined net worth of $174.8 billion, which is about as much as Ukraine’s GDP


2. The Biggest Air Evacuation in the History of Mankind Was Done by India.


3. Langar at the Golden Temple Feeds up to 100,000 People a Day for Free.


4. A place called Shani Singnapur, where they do not have doors in their houses! (‘Shani Shingnapur’, is located in Maharashtra state about 350 kilometers away from the state capital Mumbai.) People believe that stealing attract a curse from the God's.


5. Lifeline Express is the world’s first hospital-train! (The train, also known as the Magic Train of India)


6. India has been the largest troop contributor to the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions since it’s inception and every year remains in the top 4.


7. Dr. Shrikant Jichkar holds the record for “India’s most qualified person”. He was an IAS, IPS, lawyer, doctor, D. Litt (Doctor of Letters) in Sanskrit , the highest degree in a University, photographer, actor, radio operator, youngest MLA at the age of 25, held 14 portfolios, had 20 degrees, 28 gold medals & had a library of 52,000 books.


8. India has an Airforce base in Tajikistan. Farkhor Air Base is India’s one and only military air base outside its territory.


9. Dabbawalas are not employees but each one of them is a self-employed entrepreneur. They are equal shareholders in the Dabbawalas Trust. Their work was also studied and admired by Harvard University.


10. The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.


11. Agni III is the Most Accurate Missile in the World in its Range Category and BrahMos is the Fastest Operational Cruise Missile in the World.


12. P.V. Narasimha Rao was fluent in 16 languages. In addition to 7 Indian languages (Telugu, Hindi, Urdu, Oriya, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil), he spoke English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, Greek, Latin and Persian.


13. Mount Kailash has never been climbed inspite of the Chinese government’s support to climbers.


14. Navi Mumbai, a planned satellite township of Mumbai, was developed in 1972 and is the largest planned township on the planet.


15. English Actor Sir Ben Kingsley’s birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji and he is of Indian (Gujarati) descent.


16. When A.P.J Abdul Kalam was the President of India, he asked a question on Yahoo Answers on ways to eliminate terrorism.


17. People expected the PINCODE (Postal Index Number Code) would be a failure in a largely illiterate country. It became a runaway success.


18. There are 300,000 active mosques in India , more than in any other country in the world.


19. Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, was created by a meteorhitting the Earth and is one of its kind in India.


20. Taj Mahal was covered with a huge scaffold during WW2 to make it look like a stockpile of Bamboo and misguide any enemy bombers. (It was also disguised again in 1971!)


21. India's first rocket was brought on cycle and a satellite on bullock cart.


22. 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 world's largest gathering of people and is visible from space. It has its own District Magistrate.


23. India is the only country in the world which has both tigers and lions in the wild.


24. Only Africa is ahead of India in terms of linguistic, genetic and cultural diversity. And Africa is a continent.


25. India was the first country in the world to produce steel


26. Indian Railways employs over 1 million people. That's more than the entire population of many nations.


27. India has 4 biodiversity hotspots, no other country, or even continent except Brazil and Indonesia have more than 2.


28. Diamonds were first mined only in India. Diamonds were discovered in the Krishna River delta in the 9th century BC


29. Varanasi is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of the world. It has been in habited since 1200 BC. That makes it at least 3214 years old.


30. India is one of only 3 remaining countries in the world to have a horsed cavalry regiment.


31. Bangalored‘ is a word in Oxford dictionary which came up after heavy outsourcing to India took the world by storm.


32. A polling booth was setup in the remote village of Banej, far into the Gir forests of Gujarat, for a single voter (2009 elections


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