awesome polish facts!
- The world’s thinnest house is just 4 feet wide – set between two buildings in Warsaw, Poland, the home is 33 feet in depth and about 30 feet tall.
- In Poland, everyone is automatically an organ donor, unless they refuse beforehand.
- The president of Poland awards a medal to couples that remain married for at least 50 years.
- Syphilis had been called the “French disease” in Poland, Italy, and Germany, the “Italian disease” in France, the “Spanish disease” by the Dutch, the “Polish disease” by Russians, and the Turks called it the “Christian disease.”
- In WWII there was a bear named Voytek fighting for Poland. He would carry ammunition to the front lines and helped recapture Italy for the Allies.
- Vodka was originally produced in the 8th century in Poland.
- People born in a public transport vehicle are entitled to free travel until they die in Warsaw, Poland.
- There is a statue of a dragon in Poland that breathes actual fire on demand when a text message is received.
- ABBA: The Album was so popular that it drained all of Poland’s supply of foreign currency
- Jadwiga of Poland (d. 1399) was a female king. Polish law had no provision for a female ruler (queen regnant) but did not specify that kings had to be male.
- In Poland, near Gryfino, a mysterious forest has 400 pine trees all with a 90-degree bend at the base of their trunks – all northward.
- Upon its discovery by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, the element polonium was named after Poland (in latin Polonia) to shed light on the country’s lack of independence. It may be the first element named to highlight a political controversy.
- 24. The Polish Beer-Lovers Party won 360,000+ votes in Poland’s first free and fair election, in 1991, winning 16 seats in the lower house (Sejm)
- In 1991 the tallest structure in the world at the time (a radio tower in Poland) collapsed due to poor maintenance. No structure exceeded the height of the collapsed Warsaw Radio Tower until the Burj Khalifa was completed in Dubai nearly two decades later.
- Poland has a desert named Błędów Desert.
- According to the Beer Price Index, the cheapest city in the world for beer is Krakow, Poland.
- In some parts of Poland, it’s uncommon to casually celebrate birthdays, and instead, “name days”, the day a patron saint a person has been named after is dedicated, is celebrated by coworkers, etc.
- It took about 40 years for Poland’s population to return to its 1939 level.
- In early 2015, a Dutch activist group used a drone to deliver “pregnancy termination” drugs to women in Poland, because abortion is illegal in the country.
- It will take 1,334 years for Poland to double it’s population.
- Many Poles added ‘ski’ to their names to attain a higher social status since such names were accorded more respect from people of Polish extraction. Thus a larger proportion of Polish names carried this termination in America and Australia than in Poland
- There is a street in Poland named after Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi
- On Halloween in Poland, believers are encouraged to walk through forests whilst praying out loud so that the souls of the dead might find
- has an “underground” university to teach subjects that were illegal under government repression. Madame Currie was an alumna.ort.
- Poland has a Saint of Pierogies.
- There is a cathedral in Poland with “dragon bones” hanging outside.
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| the makings for kopot, a polish fruit drink. also made in russia |
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| finally dinner time! kielbasa, potato and cheese pierogie and polish vegetable salad |
