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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The US Supreme Court's 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia effectively suspended capital punishment nationwide until it was reinstated by Gregg v. Georgia in 1976.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Federal rules taking effect on 1 July 2026 eliminate Grad PLUS loans for new graduate borrowers and cap federal graduate student loans.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Retrieval practice with flashcards produces better long-term retention than rereading notes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A comet's tail forms when sunlight heats its ice into gas and dust that the solar wind and radiation push away from the Sun.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that During Hungary's 1945-46 hyperinflation, prices doubled roughly every 15 hours, the worst hyperinflation ever recorded.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Bitcoin uses proof of work to validate transactions.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Oral iron supplements cause abdominal pain and nausea.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Glaciers are masses of ice that form on land from accumulated and compacted snow.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Fetuses urinate into the amniotic fluid while in the womb.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Eyeglasses correct vision problems caused by astigmatism.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ophiocordyceps fungi take control of ants, forcing them to bite onto vegetation before they die.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Americans vastly overestimate the share of the federal budget spent on foreign aid.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Much of New Orleans lies below sea level.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Carpal tunnel syndrome causes numbness in the hand.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Stars appear fixed in the sky because their great distance makes their motion imperceptible to the naked eye over a lifetime.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Alexander the Great died in Babylon in June 323 BCE.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Microsoft Japan's 2019 four-day workweek trial raised sales per employee by almost 40 percent compared with the previous year.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Rheumatoid arthritis increases the risk of heart attack.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Schizophrenia is associated with lower average IQ scores.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The universe expanded from a hot, dense state about 13.8 billion years ago.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Night shift work increases the risk of type 2 diabetes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In 1980 Steve Wozniak gave early Apple employees about $10 million of his own stock.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide from human activity causes global warming.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Glass is made primarily from silica sand.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Vietnam War lasted about twenty years, from 1955 to 1975.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that George Washington ordered the Continental Army inoculated against smallpox in 1777.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Most American adults consume less potassium than the recommended adequate intake.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Survivorship bias is the error of drawing conclusions only from cases that survived a selection process while ignoring those that did not.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Human testes hang outside the body because sperm production requires a temperature about two degrees Celsius below core body temperature.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Marine phytoplankton produce roughly half of the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that David Bowie declined a CBE in 2000 and a knighthood in 2003.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Hindu tradition counts the Buddha as an avatar of Vishnu.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Partition of India took place in 1947, creating India and Pakistan.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Thomas Edison's son Theodore, an MIT graduate, failed his father's employment questionnaire.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A study published in September 2026 found no clear evidence that AI has so far reduced employment among recent US college graduates.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that During development of the 2008 film Iron Man, about 30 writers turned down the project because the character was obscure.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Spontaneous (unintentional) mind wandering in adults is associated with higher levels of inattentive and hyperactive ADHD traits.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A study of Europe's 2026 summer linked extreme heat, including May heatwaves, to excess deaths and damaged harvests.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, written around 1220, presents the Norse gods as human figures remembered as gods, a euhemerist framing.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A study published in Imaging Neuroscience found that ten minutes of very slow jogging improves mood and focus.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cote d'Ivoire became a signatory to the NASA-led Artemis Accords in September 2026.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The fingernail plate is anchored to the nail bed beneath it, which is richly supplied with nerves, so forcibly tearing a nail off is painful while the nail plate itself contains no nerves.?
- 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.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Humans convert folic acid to its active form slowly, so unmetabolised folic acid can appear in the bloodstream after high intakes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Magnesium ions block the NMDA glutamate receptor channel in neurons at resting membrane potential, and the block is relieved when the neuron depolarizes.?
- 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.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In the 1840s, the physician J. Marion Sims performed experimental gynecological surgeries on enslaved Black women without anesthesia.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Earthquakes with focal depths greater than 300 kilometres are classed as deep-focus earthquakes, and scientists have no settled explanation for how they occur.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Catholic Church today still forbids Catholics from joining Freemasonry, and Church teaching treats membership as grave sin.?
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