Did You Know...!

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There was a Great Hedge built by the British across India primarily to collect the salt tax. It was 4000 km long and 12 feet in height spanning from Punjab to Orissa. None of it remains today.

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Kunal Nayyar (Rajesh Koothrappalli from Big Bang Theory) is married to a former Miss India, Neha Kapur.

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There is a village called Delhi in New york , USA. There is a city called Madras in Oregon, USA.

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India has three antarctic stations, Dakshin Gangotri, Maitri (pictured above) and Bharathi.

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After United States, India has the largest number of English speakers.

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During the battle of Rezang La in the 1962 Sino-Indian war a battalion called 13 Kumaon Regiment consisting of mere 120 soldiers held off 6000 Chinese with heavy artillery killing 1300 of their soldiers.

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Bangalored‘ is a word in Oxford dictionary, which came up after heavy outsourcing to India took the world by storm.

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One of the oldest College of Engineering in the world is in Chennai, College of Engineering (Guindy).

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There is a village in Assam called Jatinga where over the last 100 years, thousands of birds have flown to their death on a small strip of land.

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India has the world’s smallest prison population.