Mind-Blowing Facts About India!- Part2

Day 2,515, 07:33 • Published in India Chile • by Rajiv The Tamilan

My Second article in the "Mind-Blowing Facts About India" series.

1. Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization) when many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest-dwellers over 5000 years ago, .

2. 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.
3. Mount Kailash has never been climbed, in spite of Chinese government’s support to the climbers.
4. If Uttar Pradesh were to be a separate country, it would be world’s fifth most populous country.
5. Speaking of literacy - India has a very high illiterate population, but it also has the most number of universities in the world!
6. An Indian man named Jadav Payeng started planting trees on a barren sandbar at 17. He is now 47 and lives in his own 1360 acre forest which now houses rhinos, tigers, deer, apes and elephants. (Mind blowing isn't it)
7. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
8. India is the only country in the world which has both tigers and lions in the wild.
9. Only Africa is ahead of India in terms of linguistic, genetic and cultural diversity. And Africa is a continent.
10. India's first rocket was brought on cycle and a satellite on bullock cart.
11. 'Bangalored' , a word which came up after heavy outsourcing to India took the world by storm.
12. A sugar company in Andhra provides rocket fuel to ISRO.

Hockey Facts

13. Cricket may be a religion now, but India has won 6 gold medals in field hockey back to back at the Olympics and a total of 8 golds. Talk about domination. A nation losing 5-0 to India was considered brilliant.
14. In Olympic Games we played 48 games and won all of them.!
India was unbeatable in Hockey for 20 years.
15. Hitler requested Dhyanchand to accept German citizenship and play for Germany but he refused.
16. 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.


If you like this facts please put your comments which is mind blowing among all these facts.

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Part 1