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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Exothermic reactions are chemical reactions that release energy.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Child abuse can manifest as physical, sexual, or emotional harm, or as neglect.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The process of recombination involves the breakage and rejoining of parental chromosomes to generate novel chromosomes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Limbic structures contribute to the genesis of states of vigilance and the focusing of attention.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Lactobacilli species can inhibit the growth and proliferation of salmonellae and shigellae when grown together.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Plastic shopping bags persist in the environment for hundreds of years before degrading.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Confabulation is defined as the generation of false memories without the intention to deceive.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Homeless adults die at three to four times the rate of the housed general population.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Emperor Nero persecuted Christians in Rome after the Great Fire of 64 AD.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Psychological stress increases the risk of stroke.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a type of talk therapy that helps individuals change negative thoughts and reactions to anxiety-inducing situations.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Swallowing a large dose of baking soda can be fatal to a person.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that British women over 30 who met property qualifications gained the vote in 1918 under the Representation of the People Act.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Attila the Hun was a real historical ruler of the Huns who died in 453 AD.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Friedrich Nietzsche suffered a mental collapse in 1889 and never recovered.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was broadcast on live television.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Anthracyclines are the drugs most closely related to acute and late cardiac toxicity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Library of Alexandria was a real institution founded in Ptolemaic Egypt in the third century BC.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A mammal is a warm-blooded animal that has hair on its skin and provides milk to its young.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Grapefruit juice interacts with many common medications by inhibiting the intestinal CYP3A4 enzyme.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Richard Nixon visited the Lincoln Memorial before dawn on 9 May 1970 to talk with anti-war protesters.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Engineers have run computer simulations of the aircraft impacts on the World Trade Center towers.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Carbon dioxide traps heat in Earth's atmosphere by absorbing infrared radiation.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A rheumatologist is a doctor who specializes in diseases of the joints and muscles.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Hormonal birth control may help with the physical symptoms of premenstrual syndrome but can sometimes make emotional symptoms worse.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The frequency of epidemics caused by Dengue viruses 1–4, Zika virus, and Chikungunya viruses has increased in recent years due to urbanization, human mobility, and the spread of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Occupations requiring frequent flexion movements of the hand at the wrist can precipitate the development of carpal tunnel syndrome.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Electric cars produce lower lifetime greenhouse gas emissions than comparable petrol cars.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Water evaporates below its boiling point because individual surface molecules gain enough kinetic energy to escape.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Psychotic experiences in the general population are predictive of later psychotic illness.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The saltwater crocodile lives in saltwater as well as freshwater habitats.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Galapagos penguins live in a warm equatorial climate.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Training GPT-3 in Microsoft's US data centers evaporated an estimated 700,000 liters of fresh water for cooling.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cats cannot taste sweetness because they lack a functional sweet taste receptor gene.?
- 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.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Multisystem inflammatory syndrome is a rare but serious condition in which different body parts become inflamed.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In 452, Pope Leo I met Attila the Hun, after which Attila withdrew from Italy without attacking Rome.?
- 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 Infectious Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is associated with exposure to tissues of an affected person or dietary exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Immunohistochemistry is a commonly used technique in pathological diagnosis that provides high accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity for tumor diagnosis, classification, and prognosis.?
- 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.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The United States lost the Vietnam War.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Underlying algorithms on social media platforms are the primary drivers of the spread of misinformation.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Moon rang like a bell for nearly an hour after the Apollo 12 lunar module impact.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The sun never set on the British Empire at its height in the early twentieth century.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Sparta fought Persia in the Greco-Persian Wars, including at Thermopylae in 480 BC.?
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