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Some common facts about India. I think some facts will be familiar with you.

1.India is about 1/3 the size of the United States, yet it is the second most populous country in the world, with a population of 1,166,079,217. India is the seventh largest country in the world, at 1.27 million square miles.

2.India leads the world with the most murders (32,719), with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.

3.With 150,000 post offices, India has the largest postal network in the world. However, it is not unusual for a letter to take two weeks to travel just 30 miles. 🙂 I laughed at this one .

4.Most historians in the world agree that the first recorded account of plastic surgery is found in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts.

5.Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world

6.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.


7.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.

8.India provides safety for more than 3,00,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who escaped to flee religious and political persecution

9.India never invaded any other country in her last 10,000 years of history

10.USA-based IEEE has established what has been a century-old suspicion in the world scientific community, that the pioneer of wireless communication was Dr. Jagdeesh Bose of Calcutta and not Marconi.