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TIL John McTiernan, director of Die Hard, Predator, and The Hunt for Red October, served a year in federal prison for a wiretapping scandal around the awful movie Rollerball and he has not made a movie since 2003

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KONlR TIL that Naftaly Frenkel was a prisoner in a Soviet Union work camp who proposed that inmates' food rations be linked to their rate of production. He was promoted to guard and eventually commandant. He would later oversee construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal by forced labor.
VMN1p TIL, premature babies in incubators were a sideshow along the boardwalk at Coney Island in the late 19th and early 20th century. Incubators wouldn't be widely used in hospitals for several more decades.
9Ye86 TIL the moment Gerald Ford was sworn in, Nixon was on Air Force One flying home. Because he was no longer President, the airplane's call sign was changed mid-flight from Air Force One to SAM 27000.
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