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- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Testosterone therapy lowers sex hormone-binding globulin levels in men.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Nazi Germany maintained cooperative relations with Muslim leaders such as Amin al-Husseini during World War II.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Great Wall of China is about 13,000 miles long.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Victorian-era doctors invented the vibrator to cure female hysteria by inducing orgasm.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that About 9 percent of women in the United States develop a kidney stone at some point in their lives.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Columbus called Native Americans Indians because he mistakenly believed he had reached the East Indies.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Vitamin C deficiency in scurvy causes old healed wounds and scars to reopen.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Ludwig van Beethoven traveled to America during his lifetime.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Hypothyroidism increases the risk of heart failure.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Black Death caused necrosis, with blackened skin and gangrene in the extremities.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Joan of Arc reported hearing voices that she identified as Saints Michael, Catherine, and Margaret.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 of natural causes rather than poisoning.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Cuban Missile Crisis led to a period of detente between the United States and Soviet Union.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The US Census Bureau declared the American frontier closed in 1890, marking the end of the Wild West.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Queen Victoria legally adopted Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a Black African girl.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The Napoleonic Wars were a major cause of the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Boxer Rebellion in China formally ended with the Boxer Protocol signed in September 1901.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Inserting cotton buds into the ear canal can perforate the eardrum or push wax deeper.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The Boxer Rebellion achieved its goal of expelling foreigners from China.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Alcohol consumption weakens immune function in humans.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Prolonged exposure to environmental noise causes tinnitus.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The term Middle Ages was coined by Renaissance humanists to describe the period between antiquity and their own era.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The construction methods of the Egyptian pyramids remain unexplained.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Prohibition in the United States caused the Great Depression.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The plays attributed to William Shakespeare were actually written by a woman.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Roughly 70 percent of men with an elevated PSA test result do not have prostate cancer.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mozart kept a pet starling in Vienna that sang a phrase from his piano concerto in G major.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Queen Victoria regarded Lord Melbourne as a close confidant and father figure early in her reign.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Acid reflux can cause or worsen breathing problems such as asthma and chronic cough.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Differences in gut bacteria composition are linked to multiple sclerosis in humans.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Bone marrow transplant matches are more likely to be found between people of the same ethnic ancestry.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The destruction of the Library of Alexandria set scientific progress back by centuries.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Daniel Lewin, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11, was stabbed by the hijackers and was the first person killed on September 11, 2001.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Gabapentin causes hallucinations in elderly patients.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Osteoarthritis is linked to type 2 diabetes.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Multiple sclerosis causes chronic pain in more than half of patients.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Guinea worms can emerge through the skin of a person's feet.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Napoleon Bonaparte caused the Reign of Terror in France.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Most of Hiroshima was destroyed by blast and fire after the atomic bomb on 6 August 1945.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that King Arthur historically pulled a sword out of a stone to prove his right to the throne.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Roman sailors reached the Americas before Christopher Columbus.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Topical minoxidil causes facial hair growth.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Roughly 75 percent of men with a PSA level of 4 to 10 ng/mL have no prostate cancer on biopsy.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The human body excretes bisphenol A in urine within about a day of exposure.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo met in Florence in the early 1500s.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mahatma Gandhi conducted brahmacharya experiments in which he slept beside young women to test his celibacy.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The Aztec Sun Stone was used as a functioning calendar.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Consuming sufficient folic acid before and during pregnancy prevents most neural tube defects.?
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