Interesting facts

You can't make it all the way through Pac-Man. At level 256, an error appears that prevents the game from ending.
Katowice is a relatively new city – city rights were granted to it in 1865. This means that the city is technically 637 years younger than Kraków and 565 years younger than Warsaw.
Katowice is the most e-sports friendly city in Poland. It is known around the world as the host of Intel Extreme Masters, and gaming events are held here regularly.
Where does the city end? Only the natives know. The Silesian conurbation is an endless conglomeration of streets, houses, parks, blocks, mines, and tracks. Depending on the definition, up to 3,500,000 people live in this urban sprawl. All of them (and only them!) know that this tenement house is in Katowice, but that one is in Chorzów.
Between 1953 and 1956, Katowice was renamed Stalinogród, in honour of the newly deceased leader of the USSR. Legend has it that another city, Czestochowa, was to become Stalinogród, but it was decided that praying to Our Lady of Stalinogród would be a little out of place.
The 80s were a time of wild inflation. In 1989, bread cost PLN 530.
Katowice, compared with dozens of the largest cities in the country, is the third greenest! Forests occupy as much as 40% of the city's area.
Ślonski łobiod (that is, a typical Silesian midday meal): meat roulade, noodles, red cabbage – this is something that you really must try. If you do not eat such a dish, you may as well have never been in Silesia.
600 meters from the hostel, on al. W. Korfantego 16−32, there is one of the largest residential buildings in Poland. There are almost 800 apartments in the Superunit!
Alcohol in the centre of Katowice is sold only until 22:00 (prohibition!)