Unknown Fact of Indian State

• 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.
• 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).
• Karmanasa River in Kaimur district of Bihar is considered to be a cursed river and it is believed that touching its water would ruin one’s plans. There’s hardly any development along this river. People around this river just eat dry fruits because cooking food would require water!
• India’s tech capital, Bangalore, has increased its office supply by six times since 2006, and now has more Grade-A offices than Singapore.
• 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.

• The only Indian state which touches the border of Afghanistan (although only officially and not on as per actual grounds) – Jammu and Kashmir
• First Indian state which was created on linguistic basis before independence – Odisha
• First Indian state which was created on linguistic basis after independence – Andhra Pradesh.
• State which gave the maximum number of Prime Ministers (maximum Prime Ministerial constituency seats) – Uttar Pradesh. With Narendra Modi winning Varanasi Lok sabha seat, UP till now produced 8 Prime Ministers.
• Only state which has Sanskrit as its official language – Uttarakhand
• The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined
• Every 12 years, a religious gathering called the Kumbh Mela ,is the world’s largest gathering of people. The gathering is so large that the Kumbh Mela is visible from the space.
• World’s largest egg, with an approximate dimension of 13 inches and width of 9.5 inches is the gigantic herbivorous flightless elephant bird (zoologically termed as Aepyornis maximum) that lived last till 1650 AD, is preserved at Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhubaneswar.