12 Unbelievable Facts About India Most Indians Didn’t Know

India is a big country not only in terms of area and population, but also in terms of 

diversity. Knowing everything about this great country is almost impossible.

 Here are 29 shocking things that will make you even more curious about India.

1. Hindi is not the National Language of India

There are more than 20 official languages and Hindi is one of them

 but it is not our National language. Official languages are the ones which a country

 uses to communicate on an official level. In fact, there are some cities in India like

Chennai, where people are happy not to communicate in Hindi.

2. India does not have a National Game

It's not hockey and definitely not chess. In an RTI reply , the centre said that there 

is no National game.

There are places in India where a man marries a woman and moves to his 

mother-in-law's house. Khasi and t he matrilineal Muslim s in Minicoy, 

Lakshadweep are some of the 

examples.

4. Bear Grylls wanted to join The Indian Army after getting

 out of school

Presenter of the famous show, Man Vs. Wild, Bear Grylls always knew he wanted to 

do something adventurous with his life. No wonder, his first choice was to join The 

Indian Army

          

5. USB was developed by an Indian-American computer 

architect

Ajay V. Bhatt is the man behind USBs. You can also credit him for AGP 

(Accelerated Graphics Port) , PCI Express , Platform Power management architecture 

and various other chip-set improvements.

6. Calculus and Trigonometry came from India

As much as the students hate it, India is responsible for it.

7. India has been the largest troop contributor to the 

United Nations Peacekeeping Missions

And this is how they saved thousands of lives

8. The gathering at the Kumbh Mela is so large that it is

 visible from the space

This picture shows how it looks.

9. T he City Montessori School in Lucknow is the world's

 largest school in terms of the number of students

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the City Montessori School in 

Lucknow, India, had 39,437 pupils and 2,500 teachers on December 29, 2011.

10. Indian Railways has more than 1.4 million employees

That’s more than the population of Trinidad and Tobago, Estonia, Mauritius, Bahrain,

 Cyprus, Luxembourg, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco and Vatican City.

11. India has the largest English-speaking population in the

 world after USA

And only 11.38% of people in India know the language.

12. India's first rocket was transported on a bicycle (1963) and the first satellite on a bullock-cart (1981)