The World's first university
The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

The largest employer
The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people!

Post Offices
India has the most post offices in the world!

Nautical mile
A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, a nautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.

Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.

Paper fold
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.

Dice cube
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

Pure gold
Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold; there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

Cruise liner - QE2
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.


Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen.