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- ...that the word quarantine comes from the Italian, "quaranta giorni," uh, which means forty days — the period that all ships were required to be isolated before crew could go ashore during the Black Death?
- ...that the City 17 Trainstation is partially based on the Budapest-Western Railway Terminal?
- ...that the Communications Center, a chapter and location cut from Half-Life, was built around the plot of a Female Scientist betraying Gordon Freeman?
- ...that the Mobility Gels are based on the paint types introduced in Tag: The Power of Paint?
- ...that the Metrocop, like the Combine Soldier, was originally to have its elite version, the Elite Metro Cop?
- ...that Headcrabs are used as weapons by the Combine?
- ...that the Combine Overwatch can directly give orders to and basically control its soldiers via extensive mechanical brain and body modifications?
- ...that a Barnacle can swallow a human whole?
- ...that the rules of the swimming pool in the Level 3 Dormitories' Aquatic Center are "No running", "No horseplay", "No food or drinks", "No smoking", "No glass containers", and "No nudity"?