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Glow-in-the-dark luminous pearls store energy absorbed from sunlight, and their afterglow occurs because electrons trapped at lattice defects are slowly released and recombine, emitting light.
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China became a State Party to the Arms Trade Treaty in 2020.
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Electrical resistance in microbial fuel cell circuits can be analyzed using Ohm's law (V = I·R).
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Every semialgebraic function defined on the unit interval [0,1] is real analytic on [0,1] except possibly at finitely many points.
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Bulgaria has provided no direct military or financial support to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Studying or practicing Kabbalah causes people to become wealthier.
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Jeffrey Epstein worked for the Mossad.
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Peru is on track to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 (gender equality).
TOTAL BS
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Chemists often refer to the color of an ion in aqueous solution (the ion plus its hydration shell) as "the color of the ion" for ease of communication, rather than explicitly saying "the color of the ion plus water."
HARDLY BS
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If a topological space X is second countable, then every open cover of X has a countable subcover (i.e., X is Lindelöf).
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The formula of the mortar used in construction in the Roman Empire is still unknown.
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The top 1 percent of US taxpayers pay approximately 40 percent of all federal income tax revenue.
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The suspension of USAID funding has caused deaths among populations dependent on its aid programs.
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The Australian Consumer Law requires that consumer goods be safe, durable, match their description, and work as expected.
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Rumen Radev is a pro-Russian political leader.
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A man was rescued after being stuck inside a movie theater wall void for about ten hours and was then arrested.
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Having a normal semen analysis is necessary but not sufficient for male fertility.
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In the United States, a birth certificate is a bond worth millions that is traded on the stock market as collateral for the U.S. national debt.
TOTAL BS
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Pop art emerged as artists responded to the rise of consumer society and dissatisfaction with the dominance of Abstract Expressionism by deliberately using new subjects and techniques to critique and question their era.
HARDLY BS
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Germany introduced car-free Sundays to conserve fuel.
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