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Did you know
... that the
Franciscan Church
(pictured)
in
Zamość
was among the largest churches in 17th-century Poland?
... that the extinct
trapdoor spider
Baltocteniza
was identified from a specimen preserved in
Baltic amber
owned by the
Polish Academy of Sciences
?
... that
French Marshal
Claude Victor-Perrin
, was captured by a
Prussian
freikorps
on his way to command the 1807
Siege of Kolberg
(now
Kołobrzeg
)?
... that the
Polish State Forests
agency oversees 77.8 percent of
forestland in Poland
?
... that Polish
anti-Communist fighter
turned
Stalinist informant
,
Edward Wasilewski
, committed suicide in 1968, on the day of the
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
?