- ... 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?