We think the devil made a lot of people do things for this quiz.

This quiz is going to be hard, folks. But the idea is simple: decide whether each of these statements is true or false.

1. In the 1960s, an Italian was arrested for selling a popular parmesan cheese which was really made of grated plastic umbrella handles.
2. Medical studies have proven that men with hairy chests are less likely to develop cirrhosis of the liver than smooth-chested men.
3. Muhammad Ali regularly trained by boxing underwater.
4. In 1973, the Dutch egg industry put dirt on their eggs, and it improved sales.
5. Vernal, Utah, USA, issues dinosaur hunting licences.
6. In the 1920s, the French invented a bathing suit that dissolved in salt water.
7. The 1904 Olympics included a tug-of-war competition.
8. The Dartmoor Livestock Protection Society launched a scheme in 2015 to paint ponies so they glowed at night.
9. Also in 2015, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources asked the state's citizens to remove their deer-shaped lawn ornaments, so they wouldn't get counted by accident during the annual deer survey.
10. In 1960, a group of janitors at an art gallery snuck a piece of scrap metal into an exhibit in California. It won a prize.

Told you it was hard. Click the picture and put yourself out of your misery.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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