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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Government debt burdens future generations.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Government spending stimulates economic activity.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Inflation is mainly driven by corporate profits.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Solar eclipses occur only during a new moon.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Milky Way's black hole was directly imaged.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The 1918 flu pandemic killed more people than World War I.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Humans are omnivores.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Siblings can have different ethnicity estimates from DNA tests.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Governments can create money out of thin air.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Individual investors can consistently beat the stock market.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Host cities usually lose money on the Olympics.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that A high P/E ratio indicates an overvalued stock.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Nazi Germany occupied Norway during World War II.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Chinese restaurants serve dog meat.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Downloading copyrighted music from file-sharing sites is illegal.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Moon's far side is always hidden from Earth.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that AI can generate realistic deepfake videos.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Adolf Hitler had children.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that WhatsApp end-to-end encrypts video calls.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that DALL-E can generate images from text prompts.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that SNAP provides debit cards for food purchases.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that AI coding assistants sometimes produce incorrect code.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Parent birds reject chicks handled by humans.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Plastic is the main pollutant in oceans.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that DDT was banned in the United States.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The BBC is editorially independent from the UK government.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Most DNA mutations are harmful to organisms.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Carbon dioxide levels are currently higher than pre-industrial times.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered as a bioweapon.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Titanic was found in 1985.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Smart speakers record private conversations.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Ottoman Empire captured Constantinople in 1453.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Space Shuttle landed like an airplane.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Radiocarbon dating is reliable for dating dinosaur fossils.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mutations can be inherited from parents.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Near-Earth asteroids pose a significant impact threat.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Incandescent bulbs produce more heat than light.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The troposphere is the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that China is the dominant producer of rare earth elements.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The gravitational constant is truly constant everywhere.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The AMOC is currently slowing down.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Aristotle thought virtue is necessary for happiness.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Jet streams flow from west to east.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Combustion requires oxygen.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Hydraulic fracturing is banned in some countries.?
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