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Did you know...
- ...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 Half-Life is set from May 16 to May 17, 200-?
- ...that "L.M." is the inverted initials of Half-Life series' writer Marc Laidlaw?
- ...that the Aperture Science Enrichment Center is built on and inside a salt mine in Upper Michigan?
- ...that the Black Mesa security guards were originally Military Police officers?
- ...that the names on the lockers in Half-Life and Blue Shift, on the trunks in Opposing Force, near the bedroom doors in Decay and on the Hospital room direction signs in Episode One are actually the names of the games' developers?
- ...that the Bullsquid hates Headcrabs, and even its own kind?
- ...that the Gamma Labs were originally used as a sort of cross-dimensional netting ground?
- ...that the weapon of choice against Striders was to be the Hopwire Grenade?
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