Interesting Facts about India

1. India has the largest number of mosques. 300,000 which is much more than the muslim world.
2. Before 1896, India was the only place in the world where Diamonds could be found.
3. India has the largest postal system in the world.
4. India exports software to 90 countries.
5. Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
6. Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
7. India leads the world with the most murders (32,719), with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.
8. India is the only place in the world where you can find lions and tigers coexisting together.
9. Chandragupta Maurya, a famous king of India, was guarded by a band of women on horseback.
10. Jawaharlal Nehru, Lord Mountbatten and MK Gandhi were unaware that MA Jinnah had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Had they known this, independence could have delayed and India would still have been a single undivided country.
    
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