Test your acuity on these urban legends/facts.

Do you Snopes.com? We hope you do, regularly. Test your ability to discern fact from fake with this quiz.

True or false?

1. In 1922, the New York Times downplayed the seriousness of Adolf Hitler's antisemitism.
2. When the United States is at war, the eagle on the Great Seal faces the other way.
3. A 1949 Singer sewing machine manual advises ladies to wear makeup while sewing.
4. The sister ship to Titanic was originally supposed to be named Gigantic.
5. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
6. Taking LSD more than seven times will render you legally insane in some US states.
7. A misplaced comma once cost the US government about a million dollars in revenue.
8. A Russian spy ship was spotted off the coast of Delaware on Valentine's Day, 2017.
9. A Kentucky state legislator once introduced a bill for the state to buy a submarine.
10. A new word has appeared in dictionaries: the word 'trumpery' is defined as 'deceit, fraud, trash, lies'.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni

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