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Temat: Things you never knew about Poland:
Things you never knew about Poland:Stolen from Aardvark English:
http://goldenline.pl/grupa/aardvark-english
Warren Whitmore
At 9ft 3 inches, the Polish ski jumper Adam Malysz is the world's tallest man.
Dave Andrew
From the top of the Palaca Kultury you can see seven continents.
warren whitmore
Katowice is often refered to as the European San Fransisco, and has estimated gay population of over 700,000.
The local football team, GKS Katowice, consists entirely of gay men.
ilter Kalkanci
About 48% of the spectators of Legia Warszawa likes Germans and some of them are proud friends of Podolski.
Warszawa used to belong to Germans, but Russians saved the city from Jews with the help of US tanks.
Dave Andrew
Former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is heterosexual.
warren whitmore
Polish President, Lech Kaczynski, speaks 27 languages fluently, including Korean and Farsi.
As well as being a renowned linguist, he has also made significant advances in his specialised field of astro-physics and has written a piano concerto.
An amateur historian, his most recent work to be published is 'an Economic History of Macedonia under the Ottomans', for which he received the prestigious Hume History award for innovative research.
ilter Kalkanci
There is an underground airport built by Nazis during WWII somewhere under Wisła, but Russians lost its place and Poles yet lost another chance to use it as water storage facility.
Dave Andrew
The Kaczynski Piano Concerto (op. 473) in G sharp minor will be performed by his brother Jarek tomorrow afternoon on an inflatable potato in the middle of a Mazurian lake. If it rains during the performance, Cliff Richard will play tennis.
ilter Kalkanci
Johnny Deep is the most known but non-existent Hollywood star which is loved by Polish teenagers.
My similarity to the real actor made me famous among kindergarten kids, brought about hundred casting calls and improved my libido by 19%.
warren whitmore
Poland is home to the rare European giraffe, which can be found in forests near Bialystok.
Kamila Gołacka
When you enter someone's house in Poland, you should leave all of your items made of cloth in the hall. If you do not wish to offend the hosts, do not wear any religious symbols.
Dave Andrew
A remarkably homogeneous country, 98.8 per cent of Poles are Buddhists. This sun-baked land has produced many leading players on the world stage, including the Dalai Lama and Postman Pat.
Jarek Adamowski
Bob the Builder will star in the new A. Wajda's drama: "Ashes of the 10-lecia Stadium".
Tatiana Saternus
Traditionally, all Polish females undergo female circumcision by the age of 12.
ilter Kalkanci
Baltic sea and Polish coasts are great for tourists who looks for sun and pleasures related to the sea.
City of Hel, is best known for its spectacular hot weather and warm sea.
Jarek Adamowski
Polish air force equipped with the never failing F16's can only be matched by the Czech navy.
ilter Kalkanci
Syrena of Warsaw beated the famous Little Mermaid of Kopenhagen in a Mud Wrestling competition in 1837, and won the prize.
As you could easily guess, the prize was a sword & shield combo.
Dave Andrew
Flaczki is a delicious and wholesome delicacy.
Steve Jones
If you boil the national dish, bigos, for longer than three days, it gives off a deadly gas. The CIA investigated its potential in the 1970s and now bigos gas, or BG, is currently being used in Iraq and Afghanistan
ilter Kalkanci
Polish mainstream music style and the pop stars it created is a phenomenal hit among British kids.
There's no one single year that an old Polish male singer doesn't team up with a young female British artist and release an album which goes platinum. Even if it happens, its just because he is such an impotent old fart, he can't 'team up' with any singers.
British pop is in the need of Polish originated pop music.
American music industry seems to be the second best place for old and experienced Polish farts.
ilter Kalkanci
Famous Wisła, was actually longer than Nile.
But beastie Russians cut it short.
Jon Miller
The campest monarch in European history was King Bolesław VII Przegięty, who repelled the Lithuanian invasion of 1453 by screaming and waving his arms at them.
Dave Andrew
And King Boleslaw XIV Palant repelled the Indonesian invasion of 1712 by smearing bigos all over his nose and throwing very small pieces of smoked cheese in their general direction.
Steve Jones
Famous French chef Marco White was so impressed by his recent visit to Poland that he decided to open a new London restaurant dedicated to Polish cuisine. The restaurant, named Suck Granny's Duck Blood, will be reknown, according to White, for serving the world's largest golonka, a massive 5 kilo dish pulled in by a horse.
Sylwia Łubkowska
A small, quiet and obscure town of Kwękawki Wielkie in south eastern Poland has just shot to international fame after winning the world contest of road traffic management.
The German town of Hessen, which as the 1st runner up came well behind the Polish black horse of a town, has been left awe-stricken by the impeccable precision of Kwękawkian traffic lights operation system, which ensures that any given vehicle within its administrative boundaries will swiftly move from A to B without ever needing to stop, accelerate or hit the brakes.
The novel system has been devised by two promising college graduates who, having been bribed by the town mayor not to leave for Ireland, worked day and night in their impromptu shed laboratory. The full account of their work constitutes national top secret information, although rumours have it that talks with NASA have been undertaken to base their new GPS version on the Kwękawkian solution.
Keith Byrne
Until 1963, the official language of Poland was actually Spanish. However, a diplomatic dispute with Argentina over which dialect was better saw the Polish government scrap Spanish, and force everyone in the country to learn Polish, just to teach the Argentinians a lesson.
If anyone would like to add any more little known facts about Poland, please do so.warren whitmore edytował(a) ten post dnia 22.07.08 o godzinie 01:54
