Interesting Facts about India

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31 curious facts about India.

They throw their tooth on the roof and ask the sparrow to bring them a new one.
Many people in India believe the Ganges River has the power to heal the sick. Millions of people live along its banks and bathe in it.
The Taj Mahal was built by Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his queen Mumtaz Mahal at Agra, India. Taj Mahal was constructed over a period of twenty-two years, employing twenty thousand workers. It stands on a raised, square platform (186 x 186 feet) with its four corners truncated, forming an unequal octagon. As soon as construction work began in early 1630, sculptors, masons, craftsmen, and calligraphers were called from Persia, Ottoman Empire and Europe to work on construction of the Taj Mahal .
India has the world's biggest Hindu Temple, the Srirangam Temple in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu.

The world's biggest gathering of Sikhs was on April 13-17, 1999. More than 8 million gathered at the Anandpur Sahib temple in Punjab, India for the 300th anniversary of the Sikh Khalsa.
Mark Twain remarked that “India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the matter of legends, and the great grandmother of tradition.”
One out of every five people in the world lives in India.
The beaches in the state of Goa are world famous for idyllic beauty.
Ayurvedic medicine uses over 2,000 Indian plants for treatments, about 500 of them regularly. Many of these plants are now in danger of extinction from human encroachment.
The Indian emperor Ashoka wrote the world's first animal conservation law in the 3rd century BC.