1. India is the only country that has an Ocean named after it.
2. India has more mosques compared to any other country in the world.
3. Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world.
4. India is the only country where both lions and tigers in wild.
5. India is the largest milk producer in the world, followed by USA and Pakistan.
6. India finished fourth in the football men event in 1956 Olympic games held at Melbourne, became the first Asian country to reach the Olympic semi-finals after beating Australia and Neville D'Souza became the first Asian to score a hat trick in Olympics.
7. Hitler requested Dhyanchand to accept German citizenship and play for Germany but he refused.
8. Switzerland declared 26 May 2005 as Science Day in honour of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
9. 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.”
10. The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined.
11. Indian Railways employs over 1 million people. That's more than the entire population of many nations.
12. The Mahabharata is the world's longest epic. Its length is ten times more than that of the Illiad and the Odyssey combined and is much longer than any other religious text or epic.
13. The world’s first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
14. If Uttar Pradesh were to be a separate country, it would be world’s fifth most populous country.
15. India has 1650 languages - 30 of which are spoken by more than a million speakers and 122 of which are spoken by more than 10,000.
16. India's population is larger than any other continent in the world, outside Asia.
17. India has an Airforce base in Tajikistan. Farkhor Air Base is India’s one and only military base outside its territory.
18. India's first rocket was brought on cycle and a satellite on bullock cart.
19. A polling booth was setup in the remote village of Banej, far into the Gir forests of Gujarat, for a single voter.
20. Some ritual chants of Kerala have patterns, but no known meaning. They can’t be written down and can only be transmitted orally. No language has phonetic equivalents for it. Their nearest analog is bird songs! These aural traditions are actually bird vocalizations which originated before human speech.
2. India has more mosques compared to any other country in the world.
3. Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world.
4. India is the only country where both lions and tigers in wild.
5. India is the largest milk producer in the world, followed by USA and Pakistan.
6. India finished fourth in the football men event in 1956 Olympic games held at Melbourne, became the first Asian country to reach the Olympic semi-finals after beating Australia and Neville D'Souza became the first Asian to score a hat trick in Olympics.
7. Hitler requested Dhyanchand to accept German citizenship and play for Germany but he refused.
8. Switzerland declared 26 May 2005 as Science Day in honour of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
9. 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.”
10. The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined.
11. Indian Railways employs over 1 million people. That's more than the entire population of many nations.
12. The Mahabharata is the world's longest epic. Its length is ten times more than that of the Illiad and the Odyssey combined and is much longer than any other religious text or epic.
13. The world’s first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
14. If Uttar Pradesh were to be a separate country, it would be world’s fifth most populous country.
15. India has 1650 languages - 30 of which are spoken by more than a million speakers and 122 of which are spoken by more than 10,000.
16. India's population is larger than any other continent in the world, outside Asia.
17. India has an Airforce base in Tajikistan. Farkhor Air Base is India’s one and only military base outside its territory.
18. India's first rocket was brought on cycle and a satellite on bullock cart.
19. A polling booth was setup in the remote village of Banej, far into the Gir forests of Gujarat, for a single voter.
20. Some ritual chants of Kerala have patterns, but no known meaning. They can’t be written down and can only be transmitted orally. No language has phonetic equivalents for it. Their nearest analog is bird songs! These aural traditions are actually bird vocalizations which originated before human speech.
