Few Facts on INDIA

1. There where no plastic bags in India before 1985?
2. Over 1000 elephants were used during the construction of the Taj Mahal?
3. The mobile users of India grows every month with about 2.5 million people?
4. There are over 1500 software companies in Bangalore India?
5. The first reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra India?
6. The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia?
7. The word mongoose comes from India?
8. In India, Dutta Samant led a year-long strike in 1982 involved about 200000 workers?
9. Rusi Surti is the only Indian test cricketer to played Sheffield Shield cricket in Australia?
10. The airline company Air Deccan was the first low-cost flight company in India?
11. About 50% of the residents in India are under 25 years old?
12. The highest cricket ground in the world is Chail in Himachal Pradesh, India?
13. Indian Railways transport about five billion passengers annually?
14. The longest station name on the Indian Railways is Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta?
15. Indian Railways is the largest employer in the world, about 1.6 million people?
16. The distance learning University IGNOU in India is short for Indira Gandhi National Open University?
17. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana in 800 BC, India?
18. The world's first known University was established in Takshashila, India in 700BC?
19. The only country in the world that has a Bill of Rights for Cows is India?
20. India is the world's largest mango producer?
21. Calcutta is the only place in the world where you still can travel by riksha pulled by humans?
22. India has more post offices than any other country?
23. Hockey is the National Game of India?
24. The Taj Mahal was in the 1830's scheduled to be torn down?
25. In India nearly 1200 species of birds can be found?
26. Taj Mahal in India is a gift of love?
27. India produces more movies than any other country in the world and Bollywood is the largest film industry in the world?
28. Indians go out to the cinema about 3 billion times a year?
29. India has about 800 dialects and 15 major Languages?
30. Algebra, Calculus, and Trigonometry comes from India?
31. India has health laughing clubs where people get together and laugh?
32. India is the largest tea producer in the world?
33. In Takshashila, 700BC, the first university was established?
34. The biggest ant in India is about an inch?
35. India used sugar before any other country?
36. 4 major religions has India as birthplace Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism?
37. India buys more gold than any other country?
38. Curry powder gets its yellow color from a spice, turmeric?
39. The number system and decimal system was invented in India?
40. India is said to be the largest democracy in the world?
41. India is also known as Hindustan or Bharat by natives?
42. Before 1896 India was the only diamonds producing country in the world?
43. Films made in Bollywood are often seen by people in South Africa?
44. India is home to about 200 million cows?
45. India is the world's number one producer of vegetarian cheese?
46. The first bathrooms is said to have been built in India about 4500 years ago?
47. India is home to about 1200 species of birds?
48. India is the second most populated country in the world?
49. Shampoo is derived word from Hindi?
50. Taj Mahal is made entirely out of marble?

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Facts About INDIA

    * India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.

    * When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)

    * Chess was invented in India.

    * Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.

    * The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.

    * The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.

    * India is the largest democracy in the world, the 7th largest Country in the world, and one of the most ancient civilizations.

    * The game of Snakes & Ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat'. The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. In time, the game underwent several modifications, but its meaning remained the same, i.e. good deeds take people to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.

    * The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.

    * India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.

    * The largest employer in India is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.

     * The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

    * Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.

    *Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.

    * The Art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word 'NAVGATIH'. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.

* Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.

    * The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.

    * Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world
      (Source: Gemological Institute of America).


    * 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.

    * Sushruta is regarded as the Father of Surgery. Over2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and brain surgeries.

    * Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.

    * India exports software to 90 countries.

    * The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population. 

     * Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.

    * Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.

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

    * The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568 respectively.

    * Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and 52 A.D. respectively

    * The largest religious building in the world is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built at the end of the 11th century.

    * The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world'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.

    * Sikhism originated in the Holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. Famous for housing the Golden Temple, the city was founded in 1577.

    * Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

    * India provides safety for more than 300,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who escaped to flee religious and political persecution.

    * His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, runs his government in exile from Dharmashala in northern India.

    * Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.

    * Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.

Law and Crime Facts

Law and Crime Facts


      1. The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.
     
      2. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
     
      3. Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

      4. The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
    
      5. 16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
     
      6. There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
     
      7. The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
    
      8. The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.
   
      9. Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
   
      10. Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!

      11. Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
 
      12. No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.

      13. Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.

      14. Murder is the only crime that does not increase during the full moon. Theft, disorderly conduct, larceny, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape all statistically increase dramatically during the full moon.
 
      15. Most burglaries occur during the daytime!
 
      16. Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.

      17. It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.

      18. Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.

      19. Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.

      20. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

      21. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

      22. According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.

      23. About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!

      24. A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
  

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An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.




The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.



It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.



The first Fords had engines made by Dodge.



Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.



A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.



A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.



Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.



The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.



Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.



It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.



A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.



Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.



In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.



Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.



It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.



Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.



The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.



A slug has four noses.



Octopuses have 3 hearts.



A goldfish can live up to 40 years.



A starfish doesn't have a brain.

Funny FACTS

• Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
• The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length. 
• The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914. 
• A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.  
• In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
• Basketball is a famous American sport invented by a Canadian who was working at a YMCA in the U.S.
• The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.
• The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.
• The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
• Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
• No president of the United States was an only child.
• Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
• Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
• Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.

• A zebra is white with black stripes.
• All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
• Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
• Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
• The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
• The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
• The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
• The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
• A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
• India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.
• Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.
• Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias !!
• It is impossible to lick your elbow. ( We know you gonna try this !!! )
• A snail can sleep for 3 years. ( wow, lucky chap eh ? )
• The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start
• In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.
• Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
• Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
• Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say no evil ).
• 55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn. hello, zzzzz zzzz ?