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- REFUTEDIs it true that Recent global warming is caused by changes in the Sun.?
- 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.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The ancient Greeks deliberately designed the Parthenon to match the golden ratio.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A mammal is a warm-blooded animal that has hair on its skin and provides milk to its young.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Viking warriors wore helmets with horns in battle.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Richard Nixon visited the Lincoln Memorial before dawn on 9 May 1970 to talk with anti-war protesters.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The attack on Pearl Harbor caused the start of World War II.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Mussolini personally marched on Rome at the head of the Fascist columns in October 1922.?
- 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.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Adolf Hitler's policies were the primary cause of the outbreak of World War II.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Goosebumps make humans warmer by trapping an insulating layer of air against the skin.?
- 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.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The American Civil War was caused by tariffs.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Napoleon Bonaparte caused the unification of Germany.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned in the great fire of 64 AD.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The United States lost the Vietnam War.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Nondifferential exposure misclassification always biases results toward the null.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Julius Caesar had a romantic relationship with Cleopatra VII of Egypt.?
- 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.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Carpal tunnel syndrome is linked to hypothyroidism.?
- 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.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Touching a toad causes warts to grow on human skin.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Inhaled dust particles are cleared from the airways by mucociliary clearance and then coughed up or swallowed.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Napoleon ordered the burning of Moscow in 1812.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Wildfires contribute to global warming by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Washing hands with soap kills more germs in hot water than in cold or warm water.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cleopatra VII of Egypt was ethnically Greek, descended from the Macedonian Ptolemies.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Windows 10 and Windows 11 include Microsoft Defender antivirus software built into the operating system.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Alexander the Great was a real historical king of Macedon who reigned from 336 to 323 BC.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The United States fought the Vietnam War primarily to contain the spread of communism.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) causes weight gain.?
- 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.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The Great Depression was a cause of World War II.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that World War I caused the fall of the British Empire.?
- 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.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The Amazons, the female warriors of Greek myth, existed as a real historical people.?
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