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10 Shocking Facts about India that most of the Indians don't know

I was searching for facts and then I came to know these 10 shocking facts that most of the Indians are not aware of. So I decided to share it here with you guys. And ya I you found this article awesome then do share this with your friends and family.

10 Shocking Facts about India that most of the Indians don't Know.


1. The Tirupati Balaji Temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined.



2. India has more mosques (300,000 mosques) than any other nation in the world.



3.  The Taj Mahal is taller than the Qutub Minar.



Because it's a minaret, it is tougher to believe that it is taller than the Qutab Minar. The Taj Mahal stands at 243.5 ft. while the Qutab Minar is at 239 ft.

4.  The great scriptures of India



Including The Vedas and The Upanishads were written when most developed nations did not even know how to read and write.

5. The Young India 



The average age in India today is 25.6 as opposed to 44.6 of Japanese, 36.9 of Americans and 40.5 of British people. This surely makes India the Young India!

6. India has the Largest Road Network in the World.



India also has the world’s third largest road network, covering more than 4.3 million kilometers and carrying 87 percent of passenger traffic.

7.  Indians started the practice of plastic surgery before 2000 BC.



8. India controls the highest battlefield in the world



India controls the highest battlefield in the world,the Siachen glacier, at 16,404.2 ft above mean sea level.

9. India has the world’s largest school in terms of students.



India has the world’s largest school in terms of students, the City Montessori School in Lucknow. It has more than  45 thousand students.

10. The first Granite Temple of the world!


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 The first Granite Temple of the world, the Brihadeswara Temple is situated in Tamil Nadu. It was built during the 11th century, in only five years.The temple is a part of UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Friday 1 May 2015

You Definitely wont believe these 14 completely bizzare and unbelievable Facts

1. Nobody knows who invented the fire hydrant, because the building containing the patent burned down. 

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2. Lighters came before matches.

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The first modern lighter was created by German chemist Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner in 1823. Matches were invented three years later by John Walker in England.

3. A piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times, as long as its no more than 0.1 millimeter thick.

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4. Hypothetically, you could reach the moon using paper.


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If you folded 0.1 millimeter-thick paper 42 times, the resulting paper would theoretically be thick enough to reach the moon. Theoretically is the key word here.

5.If you folded the paper 103 times, it could span the universe.


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With every fold, the paper’s thickness doubles.

6.127,000 trees are chopped down daily to make enough toilet paper for everyone.

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7.  Watermelons are berries.

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8. Strawberries are NOT berries.

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9. And Peanuts are NOT nuts.

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10. Pineapples actually get sweeter with salt.

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11. Trailers used to come after the movie.

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Hence why they’re called ‘trailers’. Nobody would stick around to watch them, so they got moved to the front.

12. 99% of the Earth’s gold is inside its core.

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13. Not much gold at all is available to humans.

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All of the gold ever mined by humans put together could build about a third of the Washington Monument.

14. There’s even less platinum.

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All the platinum ever mined by humans could fit in an average-sized house.