- Poland is the 9th European country size.
- Country name comes from the "Polana" which means "people who live in the open field".
- Poland had several capitals over time. Gniezno, Poznan, Krakow and Warsaw are the most popular, the latter being the current capital.
- Poland is considered part of Europe East due to the communist past, but, geographically, country is in the center of Europe.
- The first documented leader of Poland was Mieszko, in the 10th century.
- Polish King Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk was known as the "Father of Europe" after all 9 his children became important people. One of them became cardinal, other 4 became kings, one child was canonized, and his three daughters were married and became mothers heirs to the thrones of the greatest dynasties in Western Europe.
- In 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland without declaring war before to them. This was the starting point for the Second World War.
- The most famous polish person was Pope John Paul II.
- In some parts of Poland, name day is considered more important than the day of birth.
- Nikolaus Copiernicus, polish astronomer, it was the first to suggest that the Earth is not the center of the universe, as was previously thought.
- Most winners of the title "The strongest man in the world" are from Poland.
- If we were to count all Nobel prizes obtained by the polish people , I counted a total of 17 Nobel prizes, including 4 peace and 5 literature.
- Marie Curie was born in Poland. She moved to Paris, where she was married Pierre Curie and together they discovered polonium (PO) named after her homeland mother and radium (OUT).
- The poles have a tradition that, at the beginning of winter they weave straw dolls and decorate them with different ribbons. These dolls represent winter, so, at the end of season, when snow begins to melt, people burn them and throw them into a river, to symbolize the "death" of the cold season. This tradition is called Marzanna.
- The most common dog name in Poland is "Burek”. The same word is used to determine the color brown-gray.
- In Poland is the only prehistoric forest from Central Europe, Bialowieza forest located since 1979 in patrimonial UNESCO. Here the central Nordic region is the most protected and any kind of human activity is strictly prohibited.In this forest lives the last specimens of wild bison (2000 copies of the nearly 3000 existing on earth ).
- The oldest text in polish literature dating from century 14 and is a hymn to the Virgin Mary .
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