INDIA
- 100 million people come to India’s Kumbh Mela festival, the world biggest gathering of humans.
- The world biggest family lives in India: A man with 39 wives and 94 children.
- India has the world’s lowest meat consumption per person.
- In West Bengal, India, cows must have a photo ID card.(Moo, please!)
- India has more mobile phones than toilet. (this hit me hard)
- 70% of all the world’s spices comes from India.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 India, it is not uncommon to consume marijuana in milk shake form.
- Only about 1 in 100 marriages in India end in divorce, one of the lowest rates in the world.
- India has more people using the internet than the entire population of the U.S.
- During WW2, India produced the largest volunteer Army in world history: over 2.5 million men. At least 38 Indians received the Victoria Cross or the George Cross.
- The people of North Sentinel Island, India, are among the last people to remain virtually untouched by modern civilization.
Last but not the least,
- India planted nearly 50 million trees in 24 hours on Monday, July 11, 2016, a new Guinness World Record.
