FACTS ABOUT INDIA 2
- India has Largest number of vegetarians in the world
- India is the world's second-largest English speaking country
- India recently overtook the European Union with production reaching over 132.4m tonnes in 2014.
- India was the first country to develop extraction and purifying techniques of sugar. Many visitors from abroad learnt the refining and cultivation of sugar from them.
- Shakuntla Devi was given this title after she demonstrated the calculation of two 13 digit numbers: 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 which were picked at random. She answered correctly within 28 seconds.
- After defeating Germany 8-1 in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Major Dhyan Chand, the wizard of hockey, was summoned by Hitler. He was promised German citizenship, a high post in the German military and the chance to play for the German national side. Dhyan Chand however declined the offer.
- Freddie Mercury, the legendary singer of the rock band 'Queen' was born a Parsi with the name Farrokh Bulsara while the famous Oscar winning Hollywood star Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji.
- India has the third largest Muslim population in the world.
- India has more mosques (300,000 mosques) than any other nation in the world.
- 70% of all the world's spices come from India.
- India has more population than the entire Western Hemisphere of Earth.
- "Anal" is a language spoken in India and Burma by 23,000 people.
- India's "Go Air" airline only hires female flight attendants because they are lighter, so they save up to US$500,000 per year in fuel.
- Gleevec, a cancer drug that costs US$70,000 in the U.S. per year, cost just US$2,500 in India because it can't be patented there.
- In Canada, Mexico, India, Russia and Israel, bank notes have Braille-like markings on them for the blind.
- The Golden Temple in India feeds a vegetarian meal to over 100,000 people a day regardless of race, religion and class.
- Indian housewives hold 11% of the World's Gold. That is more than the reserves of the U.S., IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.
- In 2009, a doctor in India removed 172,155 stones from a patient's left kidney during a three-hour surgery.
- In India, many brides use the "Bichiya": a wedding ring for the toe.
- There's a village in India that produces most bouncers and bodyguards of New Delhi's nightclubs.
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