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TIL that Resident Evil 1 writer Kenichi Iwao conceived of Chris's surname Redfield under the presumption that it's a fictional name entirely of his original creation that nobody has the real world until 2020 when he found out about the then CDC director Dr Robert Redfield in a news report

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