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I'm interested in probability calibration games, but I don't want to put a lot of work into finding good trivia. Does anybody have a good database of one-line statements, marked as true or false?
IAWYC but this comment is off-topic because it's not off-topic.
The CIA World Factbook isn't exactly a database per se, but the text version might be regular enough to be machine-readable.
Not really an answer either, but along the lines of the other replies, nationmaster.com and statemaster.com are good resources.
How many do you need; is it more like 50 or 5000?
More like 5,000 (or more).
One other thought: given a not too long list of locations with map coordinates, it should be easy to auto-generate statements like "X and Y are farther apart than A and B".
It seems Wikipedia could easily be data-mined. Look at country statistics, for example, make up a different number, and ask for over-under probabilities