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 * ... 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 initial painting compositions were narratives of congealed blood forms made with red paints applied by fingers on walls, canvas, and glass?