- ... that the last Polish red zlotys (example pictured) were known as "insurgent ducats", produced at the Warsaw mint in 1831, on the eve of the November Uprising?
- ... that one of the leaders of the Kraków Uprising in 1846 was killed while leading a religious procession?
- ... that the statue of General Casimir Pulaski in Washington, D.C., was sculpted by Kazimierz Chodziński?
- ... that Polish postmodernism met with severe impediments not so much from the communist establishment as from Solidarity and the Catholic Church?