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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Tidal locking occurs when tidal friction slows a body's rotation until its rotation period equals its orbital period.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ticks use electrostatic attraction to leap onto host animals.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Diabetic nephropathy begins long before symptoms of kidney damage appear.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Body mass index measurements may overestimate body fat in athletes or individuals with a muscular build.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ebola virus is classified as a Biosafety Level 4 pathogen.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Among mammals, larger body size correlates with longer lifespan.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cockroaches survive radiation doses that are lethal to humans.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little and later adopted the name Malcolm X.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that South Africa enforced a legal system of racial segregation called apartheid from 1948 until the early 1990s.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A flipped coin lands on the same face it started on about 51 percent of the time.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Galileo substantially improved on the Dutch telescope design in 1609.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Cuban Missile Crisis ended in October 1962 when the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its missiles from Cuba.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel between 1508 and 1512.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen-day nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1962.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that OpenVPN runs over UDP by default and also supports TCP.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Humans domesticated pigeons and kept them as pets for thousands of years.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Tardigrades are about half a millimeter long and have eight legs.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ludwig van Beethoven became almost completely deaf in his later life.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that China operates more than 50 commercial nuclear power reactors as of 2025.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Bananas emit measurable radiation because they contain radioactive potassium-40.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Solid-state drives can be configured in RAID arrays just like hard disk drives.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Osmium tetroxide is a widely used oxidizing agent for the conversion of a C=C double bond to a 1,2-diol.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The accumulation of waste products can reduce the carrying capacity of an environment.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Industrial CO2 lasers can cut sheet metal such as mild steel.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In 1947, a hurricane seeded with dry ice in Project Cirrus turned sharply and made landfall near Savannah, Georgia.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Parazoans do not display tissue-level organization.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Gold can be produced in a laboratory by transmuting other elements.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that DMARC is an email authentication protocol that tells receiving servers how to handle spoofed messages.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Static electric discharge produces visible light in the form of sparks.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Squamata is the largest extant clade of reptiles.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that For standing waves on a string fixed at each end, each harmonic is also called a normal mode of vibration.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Homing pigeons have been used to carry written messages over long distances.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A sinus infection causes toothache in the upper teeth.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Smoking impairs wound healing and worsens surgical outcomes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The bold, powerful scream commonly associated with the bald eagle is the bald eagle's own call.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Michelangelo is buried in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Martin Luther King Jr. earned a PhD in systematic theology from Boston University in 1955.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Earthquakes are no more likely to occur at night than during the day.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Permafrost thaws seasonally at the surface during summer.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Glaciers form on mountains where snow accumulation exceeds melting year after year.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ozempic causes loss of lean muscle mass during weight loss.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Helium becomes a solid only at pressures above about 25 atmospheres.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Microwave ovens cook food using non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Embryonic stem cells are derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that HIV cannot be transmitted through ordinary kissing between partners.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Nuclear power plants produce radioactive waste that must be stored for long periods.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cortical processes are involved in the integration of multidimensional aspects of pain.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Hallucinations are false perceptions that occur in the absence of any real stimuli.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Radar satellites can image the ground through clouds, while optical satellites cannot.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Delusion is a disturbance of thought content that is maintained with absolute conviction and cannot be corrected or doubted by the affected person.?
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