1.The Biggest Air Evacuation in the History of Mankind Was Done by India.
2.Langar at the Golden Temple Feeds up to 100,000 People a Day for Free.
3.Dr. Shrikant Jichkar holds the record for “India’s most qualified person”. He was an IAS, IPS, lawyer, doctor, D. Litt (Doctor of Literature) in Sanskrit , the highest degree in a University, photographer, actor, radio operator, youngest MLA at the age of 25, held 14 portfolios, had 20 degrees, 28 gold medals & had a library of 52,000 books.
4.India has an Airforce base in Tajikistan. Farkhor Air Base is India’s one and only military base outside its territory
5.Dabbawalas are not employees but each one of them is a self-employed entrepreneur. They are equal shareholders in the Dabbawalas Trust.
6.The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982
7.P.V. Narasimha Rao was fluent in 16 languages. In addition to 7 Indian languages (Telugu, Hindi, Urdu, Oriya, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil), he spoke English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, Greek, Latin and Persian.
8.Mount Kailash has never been climbed inspite of the Chinese government’s support to climbers
9.Navi Mumbai, a planned satellite township of Mumbai, was developed in 1972 and is the largest planned township on the planet.
10.English Actor Sir Ben Kingsley’s birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji and he is of Indian (Gujarati) descent.
11.There are 300,000 active mosques in India , more than in any other country in the world.
12.world. Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, was created by a meteorhitting the Earth and is one of its kind in India.
13.Taj Mahal was covered with a huge scaffold during WW2 to make it look like a stockpile of Bamboo and misguide any enemy bombers. (It was also disguised again in 1971!)
14.India's first rocket was brought on cycle and a satellite on bullock cart.
15.Diamonds were first mined only in India. Diamonds were discovered in the Krishna River delta in the 9th century BC
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