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- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Donald Trump has not been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize as of 2 October 2026.?
- 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.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The Mongol Empire conquered all of China.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Biodiversity increases towards the equator.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Software backdoors are a common cause of data breaches.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The Iliad is based on real historical events.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Snakes can swallow prey larger than their own head.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Napoleon Bonaparte won the Battle of Waterloo.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun's tomb.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Berlin Wall was built to stop East Germans fleeing to West Berlin.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Egypt.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that A firewall can prevent malware infections.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Saint Nicholas was a real historical person.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cleopatra VII was the last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Ninjas were real historical assassins.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Steam fog forms when cold air moves over warm humid surfaces such as unfrozen lakes during early winter.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Francis Scott Key wrote the song The Star-Spangled Banner during the War of 1812.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Gout is associated with the metabolic syndrome.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Abraham Wald was a Jewish émigré to the United States from Transylvania who worked for the Statistical Research Group at Columbia University during World War II.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Franco-Prussian War resulted in the collapse of the Second French Empire and the formation of the German Empire.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In England, noblemen and some kings and queens were historically executed by beheading.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Franz Ferdinand was born in Graz, which was part of the Austrian Empire at the time of his birth.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Champagne fairs were an important part of the economy of medieval Europe.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The American physicist Albert Michelson invented the optical interferometer.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Prolonged forward head posture from phone use causes neck pain.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Carpal tunnel syndrome causes shoulder pain.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Cold water immersion reduces anxiety and improves mood shortly afterward.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Prolonged handwriting causes carpal tunnel syndrome in the hand and wrist.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Leaky gut syndrome causes bloating.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Premenstrual syndrome is associated with a higher resting heart rate.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The American Civil War caused the institution of slavery in the United States.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Capgras syndrome is a form of non-mnestic confabulation characterized by the misidentification of people.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The Vietnam War caused the Great Depression.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Lead poisoning caused the fall of the Roman Empire.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis won architectural awards for its design.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 triggered the Suez Crisis.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Earthworms eat soil, swallowing dirt together with the decaying organic matter it contains as their main food.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that China's Great Leap Forward caused a famine that killed tens of millions of people between 1959 and 1961.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that George Washington led the Continental Army across the Delaware River on December 25, 1776.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Scipio Aemilianus sowed salt over the ruins of Carthage after the Third Punic War.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Ancient Greece was a single unified country rather than a collection of independent city-states.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Adolf Hitler caused both World War I and World War II.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that People systematically prefer smaller immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards, a pattern called present bias.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Sertraline use can lead to the development of serotonin syndrome.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Grit, defined as perseverance toward long-term goals, improves students' academic learning outcomes.?
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