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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A keylogger is a piece of software or computer hardware which records keystrokes on a computer.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The U.S. Congress passed the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010 following the 2008 global financial crisis.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The United States fought the War of 1812 against Great Britain.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Pericles initiated a building program in Athens that included the re-fortification of the port of Piraeus and the construction of long walls connecting it to the city.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Emperor Nero persecuted Christians in Rome after the Great Fire of 64 AD.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Swallowing a large dose of baking soda can be fatal to a person.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Attila the Hun was a real historical ruler of the Huns who died in 453 AD.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Library of Alexandria was a real institution founded in Ptolemaic Egypt in the third century BC.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A mammal is a warm-blooded animal that has hair on its skin and provides milk to its young.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Richard Nixon visited the Lincoln Memorial before dawn on 9 May 1970 to talk with anti-war protesters.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The frequency of epidemics caused by Dengue viruses 1–4, Zika virus, and Chikungunya viruses has increased in recent years due to urbanization, human mobility, and the spread of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Occupations requiring frequent flexion movements of the hand at the wrist can precipitate the development of carpal tunnel syndrome.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Multisystem inflammatory syndrome is a rare but serious condition in which different body parts become inflamed.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The American Civil War began primarily over the issue of slavery.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In 452, Pope Leo I met Attila the Hun, after which Attila withdrew from Italy without attacking Rome.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The United States lost the Vietnam War.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The sun never set on the British Empire at its height in the early twentieth century.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Sparta fought Persia in the Greco-Persian Wars, including at Thermopylae in 480 BC.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that China's Great Leap Forward failed to meet its economic goals and caused a catastrophic famine.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Bitcoin transactions are publicly recorded on the blockchain and can be traced between wallet addresses.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Alexander the Great was a historical king of Macedon who conquered the Persian Empire between 336 and 323 BC.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Inhaled dust particles are cleared from the airways by mucociliary clearance and then coughed up or swallowed.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cleopatra VII of Egypt was ethnically Greek, descended from the Macedonian Ptolemies.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Alexander the Great was a real historical king of Macedon who reigned from 336 to 323 BC.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Napoleon crowned himself emperor at his 1804 coronation in Notre-Dame.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that iPhones have been compromised remotely by commercial spyware such as NSO Group's Pegasus.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA collected bulk telephone metadata on millions of Americans.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Isaac Newton invented calculus in the seventeenth century.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Most scholars of ancient history, including non-Christian scholars, accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical person.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Soviet Union approved the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 at the request of East German leader Walter Ulbricht.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Nutty Putty Cave in Utah was named for the putty-like clay of its walls.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Miranda warnings are named after the 1966 Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Miranda warnings protect the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during police custody.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In 1923 Edwin Hubble used Cepheid variable stars in photographs of Andromeda to show that it lies outside the Milky Way.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The US federal government shutdown that began on 1 October 2025 lasted 43 days, the longest in US history.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Carthage was completely destroyed in the Third Punic War.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel altar wall.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Julius Caesar defeated Pompey in civil war.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Angkor Wat was built by the Khmer Empire.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The United States funded Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Sweden remained neutral throughout World War II.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ancient Sparta had a formal military training system.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Frank Sinatra won an Academy Award.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Germany was divided into two countries after World War II.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A nuclear war can cause global famine.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Battle of Midway was a turning point in the Pacific War.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Edward Snowden fled to Russia for asylum.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that World War I began in 1914.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Warm soda goes flat faster than cold soda.?
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