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TIL On June 6, 2013, John Malkovich saved a 77-year-old man’s life after the man tripped in the streets of Toronto and slashed his throat on scaffolding as he fell. Malkovich applied pressure to the man’s neck before the man was rushed to a hospital, where he received stitches.

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