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Amazing fact about India that evey Indian should know
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Aug 14,2016 | 10 min read
50 Amazing facts about India sure to amaze you.
Since our 69th Independence day is here, we give you 50 Amazing facts about India that will make you feel proud of this incredible nation we are fortunate enough to be born in.

#1
India has banned all captive dolphins, stating that dolphins should be viewed as non-human persons. Here’s a good Samaritan! Surely PETA would be proud.





#2
The Golden Temple in India feeds a vegetarian meal to over 50,000 people a day regardless of race, religion and class. If that doesn’t make you feel proud, nothing will.





#3
Adding another faucet to its incredibleness is the fact that it is illegal for a child in India to neglect their parents after their retirement. #incredibleIndia




#4
India is the only country to have an entire ocean named after it, i.e. Indian Ocean. #incredibleIndia #AmazingFactIndia





#5
True to our motto to keep up with the bizarre, cows must, by law, have a Photo ID Card in West Bengal, India. Say MOO!




#6
India is the only country in the world which has both tigers and lions in the wild. Still not convinced this nation is incredible?




#7
We bet nowhere else in the world would you find an experimental township which welcomes citizens from all over the world and has no provisions of money or religion. You read it right, founded in 1968 it’s called Auroville situated mostly in Tamil Nadu.





#8
Yet another statistic proving the incredibleness of this nation is that the Indian Railways has world’s 4th largest rail network and it employs 1.6 million people.

#9
The number of people travelling in Indian Railways is roughly 25 million per day which is like shifting the entire population of Australia. Woaw!





#10
Now let’s talk numbers. If there’s strength in numbers, we sure are powerful as India has more population than the entire Western Hemisphere of Earth. Go manpower!





#11
Did you know? Pizza Hut, KFC and McDonalds introduced vegetarian menu just to cater to the Indian population. That’s the power of the Indian populace.




#12
In a display of democracy at its best, a whopping 54 crore+ people voted in the 2014 General Election, which is more than the population of USA, UK, Australia and Japan combined. Impressive figure, isn’t it?





#13
India has more people using the internet than the entire population of the U.S. Make sure to use that as a solid rebuttal next time you’re in an India v/s U.S. debate. You can thank us later.





#14
Complementing the above fact, India has the largest number of post offices in the world. Indian Postal Service with 154,900 post offices is regarded as the most distributed postal system in the world.

#15
At an estimate, 25% of the total workforce of the world’s population will be from India in the next year or so. GO INDIA!

#16
India has the 2nd largest road network in the world after the US.

#17
India has the largest number of news channel in the world. India has 5600 newspapers, magazines in over twenty-one different languages with a combined readership of over 120 million. Now those are some impressive figures!

#18
India has the fastest growing telecom market and the lowest call rates in the world.





#19
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. Bet you didn’t know that!





#20
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. OH MY GOLD!





#21
True to the cultural norm of sticking together, only about 1 in 100 marriages in India end in divorce, one of the lowest rates in the world.

#22
India is fast becoming the manpower capital of the world. Half the world’s outsourced IT services come from India, amounting to a $47 billion dollar industry.





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