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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Psychotic experiences in the general population are predictive of later psychotic illness.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Galapagos penguins live in a warm equatorial climate.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Spaced repetition improves learning and retention of mathematics.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cats cannot taste sweetness because they lack a functional sweet taste receptor gene.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Working quantum computers already exist and have been built by companies including IBM and Google.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The American Revolutionary War was fought between Great Britain and its thirteen colonies from 1775 to 1783.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Google reported in 2019 that its Sycamore quantum processor completed a task that would take classical supercomputers thousands of years.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The heat of atmospheric entry for meteors and spacecraft is primarily caused by friction.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Coal remains the world's largest single source of electricity generation.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The low quality of the Apollo 11 moonwalk video resulted from slow-scan conversion of 1969 broadcast signals and loss of original tapes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that AI text detectors misclassify writing by non-native English speakers as AI-generated more often than writing by native speakers.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Moon appears orange near the horizon because Earth's atmosphere scatters away shorter wavelengths of light.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Antimatter has negative mass and falls upward in Earth's gravity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Moon rang like a bell for nearly an hour after the Apollo 12 lunar module impact.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The American Revolution caused the French Revolution.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that About one third of the world's assessed marine fish stocks are fished at biologically unsustainable levels.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Genetic variation in the TAS2R38 gene changes how bitter vegetables like broccoli taste to people.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Programmable quantum computers with dozens of qubits have been built, such as Google's 53-qubit Sycamore in 2019.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Milky Way galaxy moves through space at roughly 600 kilometres per second relative to the cosmic microwave background.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Iran generates electricity at the Bushehr nuclear power plant.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Deforestation contributes to climate change by releasing stored carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Earth's climate has changed naturally many times before human influence, through orbital cycles and volcanic activity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Nuclear power causes fewer deaths per unit of electricity generated than coal, oil, or gas.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Stronger gravity slows the passage of time.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cramming the night before an exam produces poorer long-term retention than spaced study.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Moon can appear red during a total lunar eclipse.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Topoisomerases relieve the supercoiling that builds up ahead of the replication fork during DNA replication.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The General Assembly of the United Nations is responsible for considering and approving the budget of the Organization.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ground-level ozone forms when pollutants from cars, factories, and other sources react chemically with sunlight.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A sufficiently large quantum computer running Shor's algorithm could break RSA encryption.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The 1755 Lisbon earthquake generated a destructive tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that No microbial life has been detected on Saturn's moon Enceladus as of October 2026.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A genetic analysis found evidence that the gut bacteria Eggerthella and Hungatella contribute causally to major depressive disorder in humans.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that At any given moment the Moon is above the horizon for roughly half of Earth's surface, so it is visible from both daylit and night-time regions at the same time.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The FBI arrested a Department of Energy employee on a charge of attempting to provide support to the Houthis in Yemen, AP News reported.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has proposed reducing the number of general and flag officers in the US military.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Pasta sold under Walmart's Bettergoods brand has been recalled in the United States over possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The United Nations General Assembly designated 2 October, Gandhi's birthday, as the International Day of Non-Violence in a 2007 resolution.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A rotating space station creates artificial gravity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Saturn V rocket carried humans to the Moon.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that NASA is planning to send humans back to the Moon.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Climate change significantly affects evaporation rates.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Climate change is causing Antarctic ice loss.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Moon's far side is always hidden from Earth.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that AI can generate realistic deepfake videos.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that DALL-E can generate images from text prompts.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Apollo program had six successful Moon landings.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Climate change contributes to marine ecosystem disruption.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The human genome is mostly non-coding DNA.?
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