- ... that in 2013 Poland became the world's largest producer of mead made according to traditional methods (example pictured)?
- ... that Compendium ferculorum ("A Collection of Dishes"), the oldest cookbook in Polish, inspired the description of a traditional banquet in the Polish national epic?
- ... that Janina Goss has been described as the "power behind the throne" in modern Polish politics?
- ... that Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Auschwitz concentration camp?