True or False:

1. The baby picture featured on Gerber Baby food labels was sketched in 1932; it remains unchanged on Gerber labels today.

2. Body tattoos date back to World War II, when servicemen “decorated” their bodies with such designs as anchors, hearts, and names of loved ones.

3. There is official documentation that an ear of popping corn over 5,600 years old was found in a cave in New Mexico.

4. Paper dolls first debuted in America in the early 1930s, bearing the likenesses of popular movie stars.

5. Mardi Gras first came to New Orleans with the first French settlers, becoming even more of a ritual in the mid 1800s after a secret society of men called the Mystic Krewe of Comus paraded in costume.

(Answers provided below)

1. True / 2. False; tattoos date back to the stone age / 3. True
4. False; paper dolls first made their debut in Europe over 260 years ago, used as promotional giveaways by clothing and food manufacturers
5. True

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