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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Inuit people historically shared their wives as a custom?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Korean War resulted in a stalemate due to limited war objectives and Chinese intervention?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Staff Sergeant was a designated enlisted rank in the Army Air Forces during World War II?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The concept of mass extinction is a relatively recent development in the history of geology.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that There is historical evidence of boiling oil being poured on attackers?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Vegetation reduction acts as a contributing cause of global warming?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Luftwaffe lost air superiority over the Reich during World War II?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Historic global and regional dust storms occur periodically on Mars?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Seppuku was practiced by thousands of samurai throughout Japanese history.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The term 'Great War' transitioned to 'World War 1' at a specific point in history.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The phonological shift from /sk/ to /ʃ/ is a common historical sound change.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Continental versus Analytic philosophical divide originated from historical and methodological divergences in the early 20th century?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Some ancient Romans cleaned their teeth using urine?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Medieval and Renaissance court jesters commonly had physical disabilities?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Symbols similar to modern emoji or emoticons were used before the 20th century?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Proto-Austronesian was spoken during a specific historical period?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Nation-states engage in organized cyber warfare against critical infrastructure.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Marxism is fundamentally historicist.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Enigma machine was used by Nazi Germany in World War II.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Rosetta Stone was key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Number theory was historically considered the Queen of Mathematics.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cannabidiol reduces seizure frequency in patients with Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Adolf Hitler earned money selling paintings and postcards in Vienna before the First World War.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Actor Rowan Atkinson holds the British knighthood title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Plant cells have a cell wall.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Britain abolished slavery throughout its empire with the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The ancient Maya developed a writing system.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The alphabet descends from Egyptian hieroglyphs.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The American Civil War was the deadliest US war.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Japan and the US fought in World War II.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Berlin Wall fell in 1989.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Alexander the Great founded Alexandria in Egypt.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Sir Edward Coke was a jurist during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The last battle of the Paraguayan War occurred at Cerro Corá on March 1, 1870.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Time of Troubles in Russia was an era between 1598 and 1613 that included a dynastic struggle, wars with Sweden and Poland, and severe famine.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Napoleon Bonaparte was taller than the average Frenchman of his era.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Jesus of Nazareth was a real historical person.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election triggered the Southern secession that led to the American Civil War.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A 27-year study of Alaska soil temperatures found warming at depth at 100% of monitoring stations, with permafrost regions warming fastest at 0.64 degrees Celsius per decade.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Egyptian authorities arrested the entire editorial team of a media outlet over accusations of links to the Muslim Brotherhood.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The B-52 was used in the Vietnam War.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The scientific consensus on human-caused global warming is around 97%?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Trench warfare defined the Western Front in World War I.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that World War I ended in 1918.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Krita is free and open-source software.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Pigeons were used as messengers in World War I.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Biodiversity increases towards the equator.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Snakes can swallow prey larger than their own head.?
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