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TIL about Time Balls

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nWpO7 TIL Bob Odenkirk wrote Chris Farley's "Matt Foley Motivational Speaker" sketch
jNgmN TIL that people used to live in underground cities in Turkey almost till 1963. Derinkuyu underground city is an example.
j68pp TIL about a documentary called Titicut Follies, directed by Frederick Wiseman. The documentary took a look at the conditions inside Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Massachusetts. In 1967, a judge issued an injunction that prohibited the film from being shown to the public.
W7M6A TIL Grover Cleveland first met his future wife while she was still an infant, and he bought her her first baby carriage.
4jAo TIL of Endicott Peabody, the Episcopalian minister who served Tombstone, Arizona and was a spiritual advisor to Wyatt Earp, also taught all four of Theodore Roosevelt’s children, and presided over the wedding of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.