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Christmas Eve evening always win the tradition. On the table there are always twelve different dishes prepared just for this supper. Among various customs, the one most important, is to make peace with everyone.

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Poles are people extremely proud of  difficult stories and of heroes who kept on fighting even if there was no hope. Each year at 5 pm 1st August, all Poland stops for 1 minute, whoever is working, whoever is driving, it doesn't matter... We all stop, indoors and outdoors, in honour of the heros who died.

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of all Poles and it is true:
we are STUBBORN.

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More than 20000 polish officers and scientist were murdered in 1940 in the place called Katyn on Stalin order. Grandfather of Matti was shot there, he refused to escape telling that he cannot abandon his people and his country.

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Poles received the highest number of Medals Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jews while Holocaust. Also my grandparents were shot for hiding the Jews.

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First not italian Pope since 1522.

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Our the highest mountain is named Rysy and is 2499 meters high above sea level.
The longest river is Vistula and is 1047 km long.
We have a sea cost :) Baltic Sea.
The wildest river is Biebrza, is called polish Amazonia.
Land of the thousand lakes - Mazury, there are type of glacial lakes.
Almost 30% of polish surface is covered by forests.

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30% of 60 mln population for a different reasons live abroad.

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Hussars sabre is recognized by professionals as the best white man-made weapon, much better than Japanese Katana.

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In the Battle of Hodow which took place 11 June 1694, there were 400 Polish hussars versus a Tatar army of 40000 warriors. The Poles won despite the great advantage of the enemy.

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The Bledowska Desert is the only natural desert in Europe.

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Marian Rejewski and his two friends cracked the “uncrackable” secret code machine used by the Nazis during WWII, called the Enigma machine.

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Maria Curie Sklodowska is the world’s most famous female scientist, and the world’s first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She’s known for her work on radioactivity, and even named the chemical element Polonium after her homeland.
The only human in the world who received double Nobel Prize in two different sciences.

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Because it was completly rebuilt after WWII.

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Poland is country where hand kissing is still a common practice.

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1st in Europe and 2nd in the World, unfortunatelly, soon after, Poland was demolished.

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for the first time was published by Polish astronomer named Jan Heweliusz

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90% of Poles having completed at least a secondary education.

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Specially after 18, than birthday. We celebrate it with a traditional family meeting and sing "Sto lat" which means "May you live 100 years". Originally, it is a day of memory of the saint patron.

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Mikolaj Kopernik is a polish astronomer who discovered that Earth is not in the center of Universe and goes around the Sun.

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Poles marry the youngest in the European Union. Average age for women is 24 and for a men is 26.

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Is told a spiritual capital city of Poland where each year, by foot, from different places, pilgrimage about 1,5 milion people, and 4 times more others that are coming by cars for example.

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Białowieża Forest is a last part, never cut, of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain.

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is named Cis Henrykowski and is about 1500.

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Warsaw is the largest Polish town and a capital city. Its population is about 2 mln residents what makes Warsaw the 9th most-populous capital city in the European Union.

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We would like to present You our country of origine. Specially, some interesting facts, that we are happy to show.