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Did you know
... that an average of 150,000 braided ring-shaped breads, known as
obwarzanki krakowskie
(pictured)
are sold daily from street carts in
Kraków
?
... that
common hogweed
was originally the main ingredient of
borscht
?
... that in 1921 more than 95% of the
Czechoslovak citizens of Polish ethnicity
lived in the
Těšín electoral district
?
... that
SS
officer
Herbert Mehlhorn
was involved in the camouflage of the
mass graves
of Jewish victims at the
Chełmno extermination camp
?
... that
Bogna Burska
's
initial painting compositions were narratives of congealed blood forms made with red paints applied by fingers on walls, canvas, and glass?