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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Moon's gravity causes ocean tides on Earth.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Voyager 1 still returns scientific measurements of interstellar space to Earth.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Dry ice can kill a person by carbon dioxide asphyxiation in an enclosed space.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Fossil fuels receive more government financial support than renewable energy sources.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Modern humans outside Africa carry roughly one to two percent Neanderthal DNA.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Electric cars recover some energy while driving through regenerative braking.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The first animals launched into space by the United States were fruit flies, carried on a captured German V-2 rocket in 1947, and they were recovered alive.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that NASA deliberately crashed the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter on September 21, 2003, to avoid any risk of contaminating the moon Europa.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Blood is a heterogeneous mixture.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mass-energy equivalence is expressed by E=mc^2.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Radiation pressure from the Sun affects spacecraft trajectories.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Apollo 11 astronauts planted a flag on the moon.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Solar eclipses occur only during a new moon.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Siblings can have different ethnicity estimates from DNA tests.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Astronauts wear diapers during spacewalks.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A gun can fire in the vacuum of space.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Most DNA mutations are harmful to organisms.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Space Shuttle landed like an airplane.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that An AI-powered search query uses more energy than a conventional web search query.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Low tides occur where ocean water has been drawn toward the tidal bulges aligned with the Moon.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Sun is white when viewed from space, and only appears yellow through Earth's atmosphere.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Sodium-ion batteries have lower energy density than lithium-ion batteries.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Quantum computers encode information in qubits rather than classical bits.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Decisions on important questions in the United Nations General Assembly require a two-thirds majority of the members present and voting.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Large language models generate plausible but false statements, a failure known as hallucination.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Apollo 17 in December 1972 was the last mission in which humans landed on the Moon.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Planck satellite measurements put dark matter at about 27 percent and dark energy at 68 percent of the universe.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Earth's internal heat comes from residual accretion energy and radioactive decay.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Moon always shows the same face to Earth because its rotation period equals its orbital period.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Teflon nonstick coatings on frying pans are made of PFAS chemicals.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mice and humans share most of their genes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The ability to taste PTC bitterness is genetic.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Fossils provide evidence for evolution.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that LED headlights are more energy-efficient than halogen headlights.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Coal power causes the most deaths per terawatt-hour among all energy sources.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Moon's far side is more heavily cratered than the near side.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that NASA crashed Cassini into Saturn to avoid contaminating moons.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The chemical formula for ethanol is CH3CH2OH.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Regenerative brakes reduce brake pad wear.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The space shuttle Columbia broke up due to foam damage.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Stocks generally rise over the long term.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Voyager spacecraft carry a Golden Record.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Hair contains DNA.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that DNA polymerase requires a primer to start synthesis.?
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