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- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The American Civil War was caused by tariffs.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that TikTok's recommendation algorithm uses artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning, to select videos for each user.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Defragmenting a hard drive reduces a computer's RAM usage.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that In the United States, boys and young men now trail girls and young women in educational attainment.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Paracetamol lowers body temperature in people with a fever.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The Opium Wars led to the Boxer Rebellion.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Eating peanut butter causes cancer in humans, through aflatoxin contamination.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Tall people have shorter life expectancies than shorter people.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Carpal tunnel syndrome is linked to hypothyroidism.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that All employed workers in the United States pay the 1.45 percent Medicare payroll tax.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Honey is bee feces.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Genetic variation influences basal metabolic rate in humans.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Humans cannot obtain adequate nutrition without eating meat.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Americans pay for Medicare through payroll taxes and monthly premiums.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Bluetooth wireless headphones emit radiation that raises the risk of cancer.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The 1956 Suez Crisis ended with British, French, and Israeli forces withdrawing from Egypt by March 1957.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Taking calcium supplements causes weight gain in adults.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Ships have round windows because round windows distribute hull stress better than square corners.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that In 2020 the HGNC renamed 27 human genes because Excel auto-converted their symbols into dates.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that A kidney transplant requires the donor and recipient to have matching blood types.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Wildfires can ignite naturally from lightning strikes without any human involvement.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Eating red meat and butter raises cholesterol and the risk of cardiovascular disease.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Using a password manager is safer than reusing memorized passwords across multiple accounts.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Chronic loneliness increases the risk of premature death and cardiovascular disease.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Chronic exposure to environmental noise increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Mining Bitcoin with consumer CPUs or GPUs is unprofitable because the network is dominated by specialised ASIC hardware.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that eMMC storage and solid-state drives both store data in NAND flash memory.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Smartphone use causes worse mental health in adolescents.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Owning more shares of a company's common stock gives a shareholder proportionally more votes.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Passenger trains emit less carbon dioxide per passenger-kilometre than cars or planes.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Taking notes by hand improves students' focus compared with typing.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Rereading improves students' learning of study material.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The US First Amendment permits limits on speech such as incitement to imminent lawless action and true threats.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Turnitin includes an AI writing detection tool that flags text as likely AI-generated.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Childhood bullying victimization increases the risk of depression and anxiety later in life.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Reptiles never stop growing and continue to grow throughout their entire lives.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Dopamine detoxing improves ADHD symptoms.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that More people have died from the COVID-19 vaccine than from COVID-19 itself.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Students who pull all-nighters have lower academic performance than students who keep regular sleep schedules.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Harpo Marx was a self-taught harpist who really played the harp in the Marx Brothers films.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Large trucks have a higher aerodynamic drag coefficient than typical passenger cars.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Rereading is an effective study strategy for long-term retention.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The American colonists could not have defeated Britain in the Revolutionary War without French military support.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Home Wi-Fi networks secured with WEP encryption can be cracked within minutes.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Retrieval practice improves students' understanding of learned material.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Glass bowls are safe to use in a microwave oven.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Morning erections are linked to REM sleep and are unrelated to sexual dreams.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that People fall into two distinct types, introverts and extroverts, rather than varying along a continuous spectrum.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Red hair is going extinct because the MC1R alleles that cause it are recessive.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The British government's response to the potato blight of 1845 to 1852 turned crop failure in Ireland into mass starvation.?
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