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TIL: A Man saves a drowning boy from a River, 30 Years after saving the same boys farther

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pYe0G TIL Stephen Crowder played “The Brain” from the cartoon series Arthur when he was 14.
Eg5WW TIL that Johnny Marks was a Jewish songwriter who wrote "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "A Holly Jolly Christmas", "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree" and other iconic Christmas songs.
N7lYM TIL that air raid shelter signs from the WWII blitzkrieg almost 80 years ago can still be found in London
JYDW4 TIL that in Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, certain scenes such as the forest swinging scene, Miles was animated a 12 frames a second while Peter was animated at 24 frames a second, making Miles look less smooth. This was done to show Miles' inexperience at being Spiderman compared to Peter.
d84RQ TIL in 1974 Canada created the H0H 0H0 ("ho ho ho") postcode and started responding to children's previously undelivered letters. Now they answer 1mm letters per year, many of them originating from outside Canada, in the letter's native language.