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- REFUTEDIs it true that Washing well-seasoned cast-iron cookware with mild soap damages its seasoning.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Bleach kills mold, including the roots growing inside porous materials such as drywall and wood.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The Opium Wars led to the Boxer Rebellion.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Warts in children often resolve without treatment.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that World War I was a primary cause of the outbreak of World War II.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Muhammad was a historical person who lived in Arabia in the seventh century.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Training and serving large AI models depends on computing hardware housed in data centers.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The 1994 killing of Tutsi in Rwanda was a civil war rather than a genocide.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Maternal polycystic ovary syndrome is linked to a higher risk of autism in children.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The rise of Christianity caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Joseph Stalin's policies were the main cause of the Cold War.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Methane emissions cause global warming through the greenhouse effect.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Bleach does not kill mold growing on porous surfaces such as drywall and wood.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Atlantis was a fictional island invented by Plato as an allegory, not a real historical place.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Using the .50 BMG cartridge against enemy personnel is prohibited by the laws of war.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are on course to collide in about 4.5 billion years.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Andromeda galaxy is visible to the naked eye from Earth under dark skies.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Constantine the Great made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The Treaty of Versailles caused World War 2.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Marco Polo traveled to China in the thirteenth century.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Native American peoples traditionally used dream catchers to ward off bad dreams.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that macOS and Linux operating systems are immune to malware such as viruses and trojan horses.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A genus of arachnids is named after Abaddon the Despoiler, a villain from the Warhammer 40,000 setting.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Kratom has been associated with serious adverse effects including seizures and deaths, and the US FDA has warned consumers against using it.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, was a descendant of Timur on his father's side and of Genghis Khan on his mother's side.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Kaliningrad Oblast became Soviet territory after World War II and remains part of Russia.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Olivia Dean has won a Grammy Award.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Kaliningrad became Russian territory when the Soviet Union annexed it from Germany after the Second World War.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Kaliningrad was known as Konigsberg until it was renamed in 1946 after the Soviet Union took control of the area following World War II.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A September 2025 executive order authorized the Department of Defense to use 'Department of War' as a secondary title.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The US Supreme Court decided Miranda v. Arizona in 1966, requiring warnings about the right to silence and to counsel before custodial police interrogation.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The League of Nations failed to prevent World War II.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The Gulf of Tonkin incident led to the Vietnam War.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Oceans are warming faster than previously thought.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Battle of Waterloo was Napoleon's final defeat.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons in the war on Ukraine.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Ancient Egyptians first domesticated cats.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that An NFT can be stolen from your crypto wallet.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that World War II began in 1939.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Peter Medawar proposed the mutation accumulation hypothesis in 1952.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Installing the Linux operating system damages a PC's hardware.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The shower curtain effect, where the curtain billows inward, is caused by a pressure drop from airflow around the shower stream.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Installing antivirus software reduces a computer's overall security.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Great Wall of China is about 13,000 miles long.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that World War 2 contributed to the rise of the American civil rights movement.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward policies caused the Chinese famine of 1959 to 1961.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Historical pirates spoke in the stereotypical 'arrr' accent shown in popular culture.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The Great Pyramid of Giza was built by Egyptian laborers around 2560 BCE.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Baking softens a potato because heat gelatinizes its starch and breaks down cell wall structure.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Wool retains its insulating warmth when wet better than cotton does.?
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