Portal:Poland/Did you know/66


 * ... that Zbigniew Bródka (pictured), the first Pole to win an Olympic gold medal in men's 1500 metres speed skating, is a professional firefighter?
 * ... that Żywoty świętych ("Lives of the Saints") by the Polish Jesuit Piotr Skarga contained graphic and detailed descriptions of tortures and suffering?
 * ... that Stanisław Salmonowicz, once repressed by Polish communist authorities, has published over a thousand works of history?
 * ... that Barbara Zdunk was one of tens of thousands of people executed for witchcraft in Europe and America?