Falsehoods programmers cannot believe about non-existing things

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There is a huge body of valid and yet faked or non-existing things you can use freely e.g. for testing purposes:

* The "Null Island" being a geographical convenience, non-existing island: "Null Island is a fictional island in the Gulf of Guinea 
  added to the Natural Earth public domain map dataset, located where the equator crosses the prime meridian, at coordinates 0°N 0°E."
  
  see details: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island - it even has a fake travel website :) 
  http://www.nullisland.com/travel.html
  
  * On TV, you see the recurring fake phone number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_telephone_number
  
  * There is a broad variety of fake, generated "languages" which follow proper linguistic conventions in e.g. word length: 
    http://crr.ugent.be/programs-data/wuggy
  
  * In a way, the internal IP space probably counts..
  
  * See the classic "lorem ipsum" and its many varieties
  
  * RFC 2606 specifies reserved/testing domain names: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606 such as example.com
  
  * Generate fake but schema-wise valid credit card numbers: http://www.darkcoding.net/credit-card-generator/
  
  Contrary to popular belief, these people/identities really exist!
  
  * german ID example woman's picture "Erika Musterfrau" is a real person
  * Babs Jensen of the LDAP basic dataset is a real person
  * The colour calibrating centerfold picture of a woman is a real person
  * The basic 3D teapot rendering is a real teapot by Melitta
  

Thinking about placeholder names like Erika Mustermann and their different examples in different cultures brought first to Wikipedia's Placeholder names by language, then to the article Placeholder name, a huge list of stuff from ACME Corporation to the example domains.

excellent, will look into it!

note to self:

• IBAN/BIC
• VIN Numbers
• ID/Passport numbers
• Cities/Adresses
• Names
• MAC Address