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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Neutralizing antibodies play a pivotal role in mediating protection against virus infections including polio, measles, hepatitis and influenza.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Classical Athens was a democracy even though women, slaves, and foreign residents could not vote.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Sugary drink sales in Philadelphia fell 38 percent after the city adopted its soda tax in 2017.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Instant-runoff voting can fail monotonicity, meaning a candidate can lose because voters ranked that candidate higher.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Under US federal law, transporting stolen goods worth $5,000 or more across a state line is a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. 2314.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Facebook is a social networking website and app owned by Meta.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ukraine is a republic with a semi-presidential system of government.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Skydance Media owns Paramount following the 2025 merger.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The proposed 2026 California billionaire tax would impose a one-time 5 percent tax on the net worth of California residents worth more than $1 billion.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in the referendum of 23 June 2016 by 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Singapore government runs a dating and matchmaking service called the Social Development Network.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows a US president to deploy the military domestically to suppress an insurrection or enforce federal law.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Newton's law of gravitation is still used today.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle led to food safety laws.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Chernobyl disaster directly caused many immediate deaths.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy always increases.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Categorical Imperative is Kant’s principle that one should act only on maxims that one could will to become universal law.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Forensic linguistics is a field used in crime investigations.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Members of the Irgun disguised as Arab workmen and hotel waiters planted a bomb in the basement of the King David Hotel.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Social groups can make more accurate collective judgements than expert individuals.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Media influence plays a significant role in a person's decision to use food supplements.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Supreme Court decision in Commr. v. Glenshaw Glass Co. (1955) defines income as any undeniable accession to wealth that is clearly realized by the taxpayer and over which the taxpayer has complete dominion.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Amakusa Shirō was the leader of the Shimabara Rebellion, an uprising of Japanese Roman Catholics against the Shogunate.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Individuals may be driven to match what they perceive to be the social norm.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Younger age and a lower level of education are contextual factors that can impact the tendency to delay or refuse vaccination.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The law of inertia only holds in two frames of reference if those frames have a constant relative velocity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Newton's law of universal gravitation was refined and extended by the theory of relativity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Differential rate laws describe the change in reactant or product concentrations as a function of time.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A medial moraine is formed when two tributary glaciers join together and their lateral moraines combine.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Bayard Rustin was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Extroverts feel energized by social interaction and drained by prolonged solitude, unlike introverts.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The 1986 Chernobyl explosion was an accident caused by reactor design flaws and operator error, not sabotage.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya virus infections present with similar clinical manifestations, which complicates diagnosis in hyperendemic regions.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Economic growth alone is insufficient to reduce poverty.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that More than 50 countries retain the death penalty for ordinary crimes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Owning rental real estate lowers an investor's US income tax through depreciation deductions.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The death penalty remains legal in the United States under federal law and in a majority of states.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Harvey Weinstein has been convicted of criminal charges in a court of law.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Romania operates under a republican form of government.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In the United States, a business cannot claim a charitable tax deduction for round-up donations that its customers make at checkout.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The big-eyed 'grey' alien image was popularised after the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill abduction account and later 1970s and 1980s media.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Hanapepe Massacre on the Hawaiian island of Kauai took place on September 9, 1924, during a strike by Filipino sugar plantation workers, and killed about 16 strikers and 4 police officers.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The US government's Stargate Project, which funded remote viewing research, was ended in 1995 after a review concluded it had not produced actionable intelligence.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ohm's law relates voltage, current, and resistance.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Electoral College allows a candidate to win without the popular vote.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Income taxes are progressive in the United States.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Russian government hacked the DNC servers.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Governments can use social media platforms to monitor individuals, restrict access to information, suppress dissent, or shut down platforms entirely.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Peace of Antalcidas was a treaty pronounced by Artaxerxes II of Persia that broke up leagues of Greek city-states.?
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