TIL In 2014 a Jamaican phone scammer threatened to kill a retired American man named William Webster when he wouldn’t fall for the scam. The scammer didn’t know Webster was the former director of both the FBI and CIA. He was arrested when he flew to NYC in 2017 and sentenced to 6 years in prison.
The guy was director of the FBI and CIA and still had time to write a famous dictionary. A true American folk hero.
Later on, the World Wide Web was named after him too.
The dictionary was mostly his wife, Miriam.