Portal:Poland/Did you know/28

... that the Franciscan Church (pictured) in Zamość was among the largest churches in 17th-century Poland?
... that the extinct trapdoor spider Baltocteniza was identified from a specimen preserved in Baltic amber owned by the Polish Academy of Sciences?
... that French Marshal Claude Victor-Perrin, was captured by a Prussian freikorps on his way to command the 1807 Siege of Kolberg (now Kołobrzeg)?
... that the Polish State Forests agency oversees 77.8 percent of forestland in Poland?
... that Polish anti-Communist fighter turned Stalinist informant, Edward Wasilewski, committed suicide in 1968, on the day of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia?