The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/CuteSquidward on 2024-12-24 17:43:05.

Original Title: 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