1) India is the world's largest democracy, with 1.311 billion people.
2) 120 million people come to India's Kumbh Mela Festival, the world's biggest gathering of humans.
3) It's illegal for foreigners to take Indian currency (rupees) out of India.
4) An Indian man claims he hasn't eaten or drunk for 70 years. After many tests, doctors still don't know how it's possible.
5)Breathing the air in Mumbai, India, for just one day is equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes.
6) India has the world's lowest meat consumption per person
7) India has more mobile phones than toilets (53% of homes in India do not have a toilet.)
8)India ranks 76th Most Corrupt Countries In The World
9) One woman dies every hour in India because of dowry-related crimes.
10)70% of all the world's spices come from India.
11)Sex toys are illegal in India.
12)India has the largest slave population in the modern world with over 14 million slaves.
13)Internet frauds alone have cost India a whopping Rs 24,630 crore in 2013.
14) While Beijing's pollution problem is more famous, the world's most polluted city is New Delhi, India
15)Between 100,000 and 500,000 abortions per year continue to be performed in India solely because the fetus is female.
16)The richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, built a home valued at US$1 billion. It's a 27-story building with 3 helipads, a 6-floor car park, a staff of 600, a 4-storey hanging garden and a cinema.
17)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
18)74% of young Indians prefer an arranged marriage over a free-choice one, a 2013 survey found.
19) Only about 1 in 100 marriages in India end in divorce, one of the lowest rates in the world.
20)13 of the 20 most polluted cities in world are just in India.
21)India has more people using the internet than the entire population of the U.S.
22)The Bengal Tiger is the national animal of India.
23)Farmers in India use Coca-Cola and Pepsi as cheap pesticides, according to the BBC.
24)9 people died every day in 2015 while commuting in local trains of Mumbai, India.
25)India has the world’s third largest active army, after China and USA.
26)The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined.
27)Third largest Muslim population in the world.
28)Number of births in India every year is more than the total population of Australia, and many other nations.
29)India has the largest English speaking population in the world.
30)Chess was invented in India.
31)Buttons were invented in India. Yes, your shirt’s buttons.
32)India also invented the ruler.
33)India invented the shampoo
34)Discovered the number zero.
35)The value of pi, trigonometry, algebra, calculus.
36)First Diamond mining Nation (Until 1986, the only place where diamonds had been officially found was in India).
37)India is the largest producer of films in the world.
38)India is the largest milk producer in the world.
40)India leads the world with the most murders (32,719) per year, with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.
41)Two major religions, Buddhism and Jainism, were established in India.
42)India has the largest amount of vegetarians in the world.
43)Chai (Tea) is India’s national drink.
44)India grows 1.2 million tons of mangoes every year, weight equivalent to 80,000 blue whales.
45)India gave the world Yoga, that has existed for more than 5,000 years.
46)India has never invaded or attacked a country.
47)More than 30% of cancer deaths in the country are due to tobacco consumption.
48)Snake bite alone kills close to 46,000 people yearly in India, which even more than the number of people killed by dengue and cholera.
50)India has 2.4 million HIV positive people. It’s estimated that out of these 61% are male, 39% are female and 3.5% are children.
51)The Dalits have been the victims of the Hindu caste system for centuries. Every 18 minutes, a crime is committed against a Dalit every day.
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