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I have a cousin whose driver’s license name is “FNU” which stands for first name unknown. This was due to some quirk in his immigration documents. I cannot imagine how much havoc this must cause.

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Oh man, there’s this really good Radiolab episode (Null) about weird name stuff in databases. One story they got is from a guy who made his license plate NULL thinking it would be able to avoid tickets, but it ended up being the other way around.

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Tickets were able to avoid him?

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More-so he got every ticket filed under NULL.

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