There is a monument of an outstanding Pole in Lubin. However, it is not a monument to a politician, a military man or an artist. It is a monument to an engineer and a discoverer. Well, not only, because he went different ways before, he studied in a seminary, learned philosophy, music, took part in a September campaign, was taken captive, escaped from captivity, in a word, had different adventures. But he got the monument for his discoveries. What he discovered is Polish copper. The largest copper deposits in Europe and one of the largest in the world.

Pierogi is a thin dough made from various types of flour that wraps around a filling. Usually, pieces of dough are cut out using various kinds of cutters and then these pieces are filled with some kind of stuffing, after which the dough is wrapped around the stuffing and usually stuck together by hand. Although the origin of pierogi is attributed to China and they are quite widespread in various countries, in recent years, many foreigners have attributed them to a typically Polish dish: pierogi is a Polish-style dish.

Ambrogio Contarini, a Venetian nobleman, having traveled to Poland in the 15th century, remarked that Poles do not make wine, but they make a drink that gets you drunker than wine.

This power of mead was also to be tested by my father, when before the war, invited for mead by a nobleman from the east of Poland, he drank a glass of old mead when he was still young: he felt quite sober, as far as his head was concerned, but he could not stand up. For honey "goes into the legs".

Fifty-six million years ago, the Eocene epoch began, lasting twenty-two million years. We owe to it bats, the first horse and Baltic amber. Injured trees (mostly conifers) release a resin to protect them, which drips and forms icicles. There is also a theory that intensive resinization of trees could be caused by climate change, rising temperatures and increased volcanic activity. The drops of this resin, after drying for millions of years, were subjected to grinding by nature and that is how amber was created. Sometimes the resin was poured over insects or simply pieces of bark. Such fossils are called inclusions. The most famous, although fictional, is undoubtedly amber with a sunken mosquito, which gave rise to the Jurassic Park.