India is a vast land brimming with talented and creative people of diverse backgrounds. There are many wonderful things India has introduced to the world. From 0 to the world's first university, from Snakes & Ladders to shampoo, India has been quite the Santa Claus. Now you can listen to this article via Spotify click on the player below: Here are 20 things you did not know were introduced to the world by India. 1. India gave the world its first university - Takshashila University: As early as 700 B.C., there existed a giant University at Takshashila, located in the northwest region of India. It had 300 lecture halls, laboratories, a library, and a towering observatory for astronomical research. A Chinese traveler, Hien Tsang wrote in his diary that it had 10,000 students and 200 professors. 2. India gave the world the numeral, Zero: Although Babylonians used zero to signify the 'absent', Indians were the first to use zero as a symbol and in arithmetic operations. 3. ...
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