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
  

note to self:

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