Most shocking things you definitely didn't know about INDIA

• The Tirupati Balaji Temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Templeboth, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined.
  
  
  
  

• India has more mosques (300,000 mosques) than any other nation in the world.
  
  
  
  
• Sthambheshwar Mahadev: About 40 miles from Vadodara, in the small town of Kavi Kamboi of Gujarat, is the Stambheshwar Mahadev Temple. As can be seen from the picture, this temple of Lord Shiva remains mostly submerged during high tides and can only be visited during the low tide hours.                  
  
  
  
  
• Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore has written the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh –Jan Gana Mana (India) and Amar Sonar Bangla (Bangladesh). The original song of Sri Lanka's National Anthem was also written and tuned by Tagore.
  
  
  
  

• Old Monk is the largest selling dark rum in the world..Owned by Mohan Meakins Ltd., Old Monk has also been the biggest Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) brand for many years. Produced in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, it is available in all parts of India and the world, including places like Russia, the USA, the UK, Japan, the UAE, Estonia, Finland, New Zealand and Canada. 
  
  
  
  

• These are African-origin Indians living here for the last 500 years. They are collectively referred to as Siddis. They came to India as slaves of Arabs and Portuguese merchants. Siddis are largely concentrated in parts of Gujarat, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
  
  
  
  
  

• The Taj Mahal is taller than the Qutub Minar. Because it's a minaret, it is tougher to believe that it is taller than the Qutab Minar. The Taj Mahal stands at 243.5 ft. while the Qutab Minar is at 239 ft.
  
  
  
   

• India controls the highest battlefield in the world,the Siachen glacier, at 16,404.2 ft above mean sea level.
  
  
  
  

• A sugar company Andhra Sugars Ltd supplies rocket fuel to ISRO. The company has started supply of liquid hydrogen and cryogenic fuel to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

• In a certain region in West Bengal, cows need a photo ID. To prevent Indian cattle being smuggled along India's border into Bangladesh, authorities have come up with a solution to issue photo ID cards for cattle

• Today, India has the world’s largest school in terms of students, the City Montessori School in Lucknow. It has more than  45 thousand students.
  
  
  
  

• Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, was created by a meteorhitting the Earth and is one of its kind in India. 
  
  
                                

• Magnetic Hill is a gravity hill located near Leh in Ladakh, India. The hill is alleged to have magnetic properties strong enough to pull cars uphill and force passing aircraft to increase their altitude in order to escape magnetic interference. However this is due to the  layout of the surrounding land which produces an optical illusion, making a slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope.

• Chail in Himachal Pradesh is the highest cricket pitch in the world. It is situated at an elevation of 2444 meters (above the sea level).

• The first Granite Temple of the world, the Brihadeswara Temple is situated in Tamil Nadu. It was built during the 11th century, in only five years.The temple is a part of UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• The world’s largest film studio is Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad

• The Grand Anicut Dam or The Kallanai dam in the state of Tamil Nadu was built over 2000 years ago and is still standing .The dam was originally constructed by the Chola king Karikalan around the 2nd Century AD and is considered to be one of the oldest water-diversion or water-regulator structures in the world which is still in use.
  
  

• India’s first rocket on cycle and a satellite on bullock cart: