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The Word 'You' Gets Said Nearly 4,000 Times

Netflix actually crunched the numbers on this one. Across just the first two seasons, the word 'you' is spoken 3,857 times, largely thanks to Joe's endless second-person inner monologues aimed at whoever he's currently fixated on. Season one alone accounts for 241 uses in the opening run of episodes.

James Woods Played the Government Handler

Mike Toreno, the shady federal agent who blackmails CJ into doing his dirty work for most of the game's back half, was voiced by James Woods. His slick, menacing line delivery makes Toreno one of the more unsettling characters in the story.

Remember, No Russian

Right before the airport massacre kicks off, Makarov mutters 'С нами Бог' (God is with us) then tells his men in English: 'Remember... no Russian.' It's not just a creepy line, it's the whole plan. Keep the gunmen speaking English so the attack gets pinned on America instead of him, which is exactly the spark that sets off World War III for the rest of the game.

There Was a Real Walter White

While the show was on air, an actual meth dealer named Walter White was arrested in Alabama, and the case got weird enough to become the subject of its own 2013 documentary. Life imitating art in the strangest way.

Halsey's Hidden Laboratory

The Package hides one of the campaign's most involved secrets: a whole sequence of steps that leads to a concealed lab belonging to Dr. Halsey. Find it and you're rewarded with seven terminals worth of extra story, which is a lot of effort for something most players will completely walk past.

Skyrim Sold 3.5 Million Copies in Its First 48 Hours

Guinness World Records recognizes Skyrim as the fastest-selling open-world RPG ever, having shifted 3.5 million copies in just 48 hours of release and coming within half a million copies of matching Oblivion's entire lifetime sales inside its first month.

Nobody Wants to Admit Who Invented the Egg

Check the in-game description for a regular old Egg and you'll find a surprisingly philosophical bit of flavour text musing over whether chickens evolved or were made by the gods, noting that no god has ever claimed credit for the first chicken or egg, but none of them deny it either.

Durden the Tailor

Check out a brawling tournament in Novigrad and you'll run into a character called Durden the Tailor, a fairly unsubtle nod to Tyler Durden from Fight Club.

The Hunters-Only Heretics That Never Happened

According to the developer commentary that shipped with Halo 3's Legendary Edition, the Heretic faction you fight in Halo 2's Sacred Icon and Quarantine Zone was originally going to be made up entirely of Hunters, no Grunts or Elites involved at all. It got changed during development, but it's a strange alternate version of that mission to imagine.

Atreus Is Wearing Kratos's Old Loincloth

Look closely at the red-and-gold sash tied around Atreus's waist right at the start of the game. It's got the same geometric pattern as the loincloth Kratos wore back in Greece, so it seems Faye repurposed a piece of his past into something for their son to wear.