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Fact or fiction: Test your knowledge of cold weather claims on this quiz

A woman walks across the snowy University of Minnesota campus.
A woman walks across the snowy University of Minnesota campus near the Dinkytown neighborhood in Minneapolis on Sunday.
Jeff Wheeler | Star Tribune via AP

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If you think you know everything there is to know about frigid winters, prove it.

Try this quiz to see how your polar vortex knowledge holds up to some of the most common cold weather claims:

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