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India Facts
1-India’s name is derived from the “Indus” river.
2- India has the world’s third largest active army, after China and USA.
3- Indus Valley Civilisation is the world’s oldest civilisation.
4-Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
5- India has the largest English speaking population in the world.
6-Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, was created by a meteor hitting the Earth and is one of its kind in India.
7-Magnetic Hill is a gravity hill located near Leh in Ladakh, India.
8-Viswanathan Anand is the first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: knockout, tournament, and match.
9-India is the largest producer of films in the world.
10-Karmanasa River in India is considered to be a cursed river and it is believed that touching its water would ruin one’s plans
11-The first Granite Temple of the world, the Brihadeswara Temple is situated in Tamil Nadu
12-India is one of the only three countries that makes supercomputers (the US and Japan are the other two).
13-The state of Meghalaya is the wettest inhabited place of earth.
14-India is the world’s largest importer of arms.
15-India gave the world Yoga, that has existed for more than 5,000 years.
16-India is the world’s third largest economy.
17- India is the largest milk producer in the world.
18-Chess was invented in India. Buttons were invented in India.
19- India’s first rocket was brought on cycle and a satellite on bullock cart.
20-Takshila is said to be the first every university in the world; it started around 700 BC.