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20 Amazing facts about India
India has a diverse and varied culture, which changes depending on where you visit the country. You can find various religions, various art, and music styles, even different languages across the country.
Here are 20 amazing facts about India.
- The discovery of the Indian physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose, who worked alongside Einstein himself, was considered to be the biggest discovery of this century. We should surely be proud of the fact that half of the particles in the planet are ‘Bosons’ named for Bose.
2. In India, shampoos were invented, not the commercial liquid ones, but the herbal process. From the Sanskrit word “champu”, that means to massage, the word ‘shampoo’ itself was derived.
3. Meghalaya village, with around 11,873 millilitres of rain annually, has won the Guinness world record award for the wettest location on Earth. The monsoon season is six months long, so be sure to pack an umbrella!