Interesting Facts About India

Facts On India That You Had No Idea About

These are some interesting facts about India that I am sharing with you. These will surely adds to your general knowledge and as a citizen of India we all must be aware of these facts about our country.

🔆The first rocket in India was transported on a cycle: The first rocket in India was transported on cycle as it was so light and small and was transported to the Thumba Launching Station in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

🔆The wettest inhabited place in the world: Mawsynram, a village on the Khasi Hills in Meghalaya, receives the highest recorded average rainfall in the world. Cherrapunji which is also a part of Meghalaya, holds the record for the most rainfall. It holds Guinness record for highest average annual rainfall.

🔆 Floating Post Office: India is not only known for the most significant number of post offices in the world, but it has its very own floating post office on Dal Lake in Srinagar. It also includes philately museum within itself.

🔆 Kumbh Mela gathering visible from space: The Kumbh Mela is a spiritual event which is held once in 12 years in Northern India. In 2011, this religious gathering was so vast that it was visible in space through a satellite. It attracted over 70 million people.

🔆 Biggest Family in the World: Mr. Ziona Chana from Baktawng village of Mizoram lives in 100 room mansion having 39 wives 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. He is the head of the world's biggest family consisting of 181 members. 

🔆 A Huge Lake formed by Meteor: One of the best kept secret in Maharashtra state is the Lonar Lake that was created when a meteor plummeted into it around  52,000 years ago.

🔆 Shampooing, an Indian Concept: The word shampoo has been derived from the Sanskrit word "Champu", which means to massage. It was invented in India, not the commercial liquid ones but the method by use of herbs.

🔆 There are Over 300,000 Mosques in India: On around 14.2% of the country's population being from Muslim community India happens to have the most number of mosques in the world. Some of the famous ones being Jama Masjid in New Delhi, Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, Taj-Ul-Masjid in Bhopal and many more.

🔆 Tulsi Shyam - The Hills that Defy Gravity: The strange phenomenon was discovered on a stretch of road near Tulsi Shyam in Gujarat. Signs at the road instruct drivers to park their cars and leave them in neutral, and the cars begin to roll up the hill against the pull of gravity. Interesting, Isn't it?

🔆India as the Second Largest English-speaking Nation: With around 125 million speakers about 10% of the population, India is second only to the USA, which currently has more than 300 million English speakers. This statistic is expected to quadruple(fourfold) in the next decade.

🔆Bandra-Worli Sea Link Has steel Wires Equal to Earth's Circumference: Many of us are unaware about the fact that the cables have the capability of holding 900 tons of weight. The entire establishment's weight is equivalent to that of 50,000 African elephants.

🔆Village called Snapdeal.com Nagar: Shiv Nagar village in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh was renamed ‘Snapdeal.com Nagar’ after snapdeal.com, the e-commerce company installed 15 hand-pumps in the village so that the villagers wouldn’t have to walk for miles to fetch water. The village has the Snapdeal logo branded everywhere.

These interesting and amazing facts will surely adds to your knowledge. Hope in this blog you found something of great value to you and helped you in increasing your knowledge.

Thankyou

Anshu