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TIL of US Secret Service special agent Jerry Parr, who helped save the life of Ronald Reagan after an assassination attempt. As a boy, Parr saw Reagan portray a Secret Service agent in 1939's "Code of the Secret Service" and was inspired to become an agent himself.

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