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- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The British Empire caused the Irish famine of 1845 to 1852.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Joan of Arc personally fought in battles during the Hundred Years' War.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that China's Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1962 achieved its goals of rapid industrial and agricultural growth.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Strained chest wall muscles cause chest pain.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Julius Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon in 49 BCE triggered a Roman civil war.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Immigration caused the fall of the Roman Empire.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The First World War caused the Great Depression of the 1930s.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The visible bright flash of a lightning strike travels upward from the ground to the cloud.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Medieval cartographers regularly wrote "here be dragons" on their maps.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that World War One caused the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Joseph Stalin's policies were the main cause of the Cold War.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Antivirus software effectively detects and blocks most malware on consumer computers.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Most bitcoin mining is carried out in industrial data centres using specialised ASIC hardware rather than on personal computers.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The nose of the Great Sphinx of Giza was shot off by Napoleon's troops in 1798.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Carpal tunnel syndrome causes numbness in the hand.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Making on-time payments on student loans builds a borrower's credit history.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Metformin produces weight loss in women with polycystic ovary syndrome.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide from human activity causes global warming.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Tourette's syndrome is predominantly characterised by compulsive swearing, known as coprolalia.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Vietnam War lasted about twenty years, from 1955 to 1975.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Argentina's GDP per capita was among the highest in the world in the early 20th century and fell substantially relative to the United States over the following decades.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Many historians now describe the end of the Western Roman Empire as a gradual transformation rather than a sudden collapse.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The earliest surviving written works from Japan, the Kojiki (712 CE) and the Nihon Shoki (720 CE), date from the early 8th century and were written using Chinese characters.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mexico's NOM-051 standard requires front-of-package warning labels on foods with excess sugar, calories, sodium, or saturated fat, and the labeling requirement took effect in October 2020.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Coyotes have expanded their range across North America since the 19th century, while gray wolves lost most of their historical range in the contiguous United States to extermination campaigns.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In Egyptian mythology, Ra sent Sekhmet to destroy humanity, and a flood of beer stopped her.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Pythagoras was a real historical person.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Dracula was based on a real historical figure.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ancient Romans had public toilets.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mars is the god of war and an agricultural guardian in ancient Roman religion and mythology.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Plagiarism detection software helps students learn to cite sources correctly.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that King Arthur historically pulled a sword out of a stone to prove his right to the throne.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that World War II was caused by religion.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that World War I was a global conflict with fighting on multiple continents.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The Great Leap Forward campaign of 1958 to 1962 damaged China's economy.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Scientists reconstruct atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of ice-free periods of Earth's history using proxies such as stomatal density in fossil leaves, paleosol carbonates, boron isotopes in marine carbonates, and alkenones.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Egypt observes 6 October as a national holiday marking the start of the 1973 war with Israel.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Overclocking a processor voids its warranty.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Carpal tunnel syndrome causes pain in the elbow.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Plagiarism detection software improves students' academic writing performance.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Antivirus software reliably detects keyloggers installed on a computer.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Nazi Germany maintained cooperative relations with Muslim leaders such as Amin al-Husseini during World War II.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Religion is the main cause of most wars throughout history.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Anthropodermic bibliopegy, the practice of binding books in human skin, dates back to at least the 17th century.?
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