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Awesome Falsehood 
A curated list of awesome falsehoods programmers believe in.
Motivation
TODO: explain why this list is aweseome.
Contents
Dates and times
Emails
Geography
Human names
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names.
- XKCD #327: Exploits of a Mom.
- HL7 V3 RIM: a flexible data model for representing human names.
- iOS NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter: localized representations of the components of a person’s name.
Phone numbers
libphonenumber: Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers. Also available for C#, Objective-C, Python, Ruby and PHP.
Prices
Postal addresses
- Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses.
libaddressinput: Google's common C++ and Java library for parsing, formatting, and validating international postal addresses.addressing: A PHP 5.4+ addressing library, powered by Google's dataset.postal-address: Python module to parse, normalize and render postal addresses.
Lisense
Content of this repository is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License.
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