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Did you know
... that
Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski
(pictured)
, one of the earliest promoters of a
Unified Europe
, proposed a customs union, a central bank, and a single currency as far back as 1885?
... that 14-year-old Leon Śliwiński saved the life of 12-year-old David Friedman in the
Kielce Ghetto
during the
Holocaust in German-occupied Poland
?
... that the light, crisp, smoky, and highly carbonated
Grodziskie
beer was once nicknamed "Polish Champagne"?
... that the German-Polish astronomer
Johannes Hevelius
declared that one needed the eyes of a
lynx
to see
Lynx
?