1. Poland is the the 9th largest country in Europe.
2. The most popular name for a dog in Poland is Burek which translates to: “brownish-grey color”.
3. In Poland the name day is considered more important than the birthday.
4. Amongst all the members of the European Union, the residents of Poland marry the youngest.
5. Poland boasts 17 Nobel prize winners, including four Peace Prizes and five in Literature.
6. 90% of Poles have completed at least secondary education.
7. Marie Curie (born Maria Sklodowska ; 1867-1934), the first and only Nobel laureate in two different sciences and first female professor at the Sorbonne University.
8. Polish born astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was the first person to propose that the earth was not the center of the universe.
9. Another Polish astronomer, Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) published the earliest exact maps of the moon.
10. Saint John’s Kupala is a popular holiday in which people jump over fires, a tradition that predates Christianity.
11. In Wroclaw there is an annual city-wide medieval festival, including jousts, horse archery, medieval dances and other activities.
12. Marzenna is a tradition where people weave straw dolls and decorate them with ribbons. These represent the end of winter, and the beginning of spring. When the snow starts to melt, they proclaim the beginning of spring and chuck the Marzennas into the river or stream, symbolically ‘killing’ the winter.
13. During Wianki people go to the riverbanks and float wreaths with candles on them on the water. If it floats to a woman on the other side, she’ll find love. If it circles three times, she’ll be unlucky with her love life.
14. Natural resources include: coal, sulfur, copper, natural gas, silver, lead, salt, amber, arable land.
15. Przystanek Woodstock is the biggest open-air festival in Europe–an annual free rock music festival in Poland, inspired by and named for the Woodstock Festival.
16. Pizza in Poland does not contain tomato sauce. The waiters bring sauce to the table in a pitcher, and you pour it on top. Sometimes the sauce is just ketchup.
17. There is a Pope channel on TV. Anytime one needs to see the pope, one can tune him in.
18. In Poland, bananas are peeled from the blossom end, not from the stem end.
19. Some Polish beer is ten per-cent alcohol.
20. Polish toilet paper is made of crepe.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 4:54 pm
these are funny
January 11th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
these are fun facts there needs to be more
March 4th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Im from Poland :/
March 5th, 2010 at 12:31 am
1. What’s so fun in this sentence?
2. No one calls a dog Burek. This is a really old name, and no one use it anymore.
3. No, this is not true. Only few old people are celebrating “Imieniny” – name day.
4. I didn’t know that… But my friends have married in age… 25-27.
5. What is so fun about it?
6. I can’t comment this, because I don’t know how looks difference between ours and yours secondary education.
7. What is so fun about it?
8. What is so fun about it?
9. What is so fun about it?
10. No one is doing that. To be true, I first heard of this holiday from yours “article”.
11. I don’t live in Wroclaw, but there might be something like this.
12. “Marzanna”, no “Marzenna”! And only kids in age 7-10 are doing this.
13. I didn’t hear about this. Where did you find it?
14. So?
15. The best festival I’ve ever seen.
16. Usually a waiters gives us 2-4 sauces so we can choose.
17. No, there isn’t. We have something like Religion TV, but i didn’t saw there pope.
18. This was actually funny.
19. There aren’t tasty. ;p
20. I didn’t know that.
Before you write something about country please talk with someone who lives there. And think about REALLY funny facts. This was a little boring.
Sorry for my english.
March 5th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Hey, I’m from Poland and I want to correct these ‘facts’
, and name day is more important for older people, who don’t want to count their years 
Of course I’m not mad about these mistakes, I just don’t want to make English people think we’re living in Middle Ages 
We’re not living like in Middle Ages – we don’t celebrate Wianki or St Kupala Day, so we don’t jump over fire, it was celebrated like that many years ago We have tomato sauce on pizza, but we also have spicy or garlic sauce to pour it over the pizza. Marzanna, not MarzEnna, is celebrated mainly by small children, or maybe also people in villages. Even more popular name for dog is Azor (I have no idea how to translate it
April 21st, 2010 at 9:41 am
Hey!! My family is Polish. I’m going to Poland this Summer!!:)