Cool thing about Illinois drivers licenses is that we know OP is 26 now.
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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The drivers license number has information about gender and birthdate encoded into it. You can see enough of the number to know that this is someone who registered as female, and has a recorded birth date of 29 July '98. I assume this person isn't 126 years old, so we'll say they're 26.
You can tell it's an Illinois license, because no other state is as obsessed with Lincoln. (Edit: you can also read the Illinois in the seal in the back left)
Ooh, this is fun. Another piece of data is that we have most of what appears to be the zip code, so we can get pretty close to knowing where they are located:
Someone else with an Illinois licence could probably use that to estimate how long their address that ends with "e Ave" is and narrow it down to fewer than 8 east-west streets in this town of around 12,000.
Lol this whole thread is making want to find out all the encoding of my license too, but I don't even want to ask for help because you'll all somehow figure out my mother's hometown, my favorite pizza shop, and the location where I had sex by myself for the first time.
Reminds me I just learned about this: overpass-turbo.eu
GeoGuessrs use it to run queries on OpenStreetMap (even if a chatbot has to write those queries first).
Worked for something like “show me all houses with the house number 529 in this ZIP Code“. Oh probably saw that here (video)
Damn, they really named a place F-ingham
You're getting that from 298815?
Washington does (did? [Haven't lived there for 10+ years]) something similar with birthdate where your birth year and 2 specific digits of the ID # are supposed to add up to 100. They teach it at the class you're required to take to get a permit to serve alcohol.
States started doing cool things with UV ink 20+ years ago.
My favorite thing on a license though was the microprinting on MA licenses. It looks like a bar going across the top of the license under "Massachusetts" but it is tiny printing and every second or third printing of "registry of Motor Vehicles" they intentionally misspelled "registry".
....I need to go get my wallet brb
edit: MA license lights up like a rave. Not neon Lincoln amazing, but pretty bomb
How you gonna say that and not post a pic?
Not mine, but here's an example
It even shows whether the license haz eyes
That's dope as hell!
how do you know its intentional?
It's a fairly common anti-copy, anti-forgery technique.
I knew the guy who designed that part. From what they said it was common because nobody thinks the state would misspell something like that and ifyou know its easy to look for.
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