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• ...Asia is home to the highest Mount Everest (8,848m) and lowest Dead Sea (-395m) points on Earth???
• ...Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian to win the Nobel prize??

  

  Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore

• ...The twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac are the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig, with each year represented by one of the animals??
• ...The Great Wall of China is the only man made structure visible from outer space??
• ...The famous board game, called Chess, was invented in India??
• ...Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world??
• ...People in India and Nepal do not greet one another with a handshake, but rather put their palms together and bow their forehead and say Namaste (directly translated as ‘I salute the God in youˇ)??
• ...Sri Lanka is the world’s largest tea exporter??

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• ...Asia is the largest continent in the world???
• ...Asia fostered many religions like Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism???
• ...More Muslims live in South Asia than in the whole Middle East???
• ...more people live in India than in Central America, North America and South America – altogether??
• ...the 10 tallest mountains of the world are located in Asia???
• ...Himalayan mountain system is the world's highest???
• ...Asia is the only continent that borders two other continents, Africa and Europe and in the winter, when ice covers the Bering Sea it borders North America as well???

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• ... that as per an estimation almost 95% of India's flutes are manufactured in the city of Pilibhit only in the state of Uttar pradesh.
• ... that champion shooter Abhinav Bindra is the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at any Olympic Games?
• ... that houses in the Indian village Shani Shingnapur do not have doors?
• ... that the Nariman House, which was home to a Chabad house, was a Mumbai landmark prior to falling victim to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks?
• ... that the police shooting of Rahul Raj, a BEST bus hijacker in Mumbai, India, sparked nationwide protests and discussions?
• ... that Vakkom Moulavi was the founder of the newspaper Swadeshabhimani which was banned by the Government of Travancore due to its criticisms against the government and the Diwan P. Rajagopalachari?
• ... that when Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly scored a century on test debut at Lord's in 1996, he became the third overall and first since John Hampshire in 1969 to do so?
• ... that in 1870, the Indian Reform Association aimed at putting into practice some of the ideas that the Brahmo leader Keshub Chunder Sen was exposed to during his visit to Britain?
• ... that the Durga Vahini, the women's wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, have been accused of instigating violence against religious minorities in India?
• ... that the Halegannada, literally Old Kannada, is an ancient form of the Kannada language?

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Portal:Asia/Did you know.../10 The Brunei Empire had its golden age from the 15th to the 17th centuries, when its control extended over the entire island of Borneo and north into the Philippines.

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