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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The hat tilted low, the single white glove, the way Michael Jackson freezes mid-move: he got all of it from a guy who started going bald at 17 and wore the hat to cover it, and the gloves because he hated his own hands.

That guy was Bob Fosse. The hat and gloves were only two of his fixes. He was pigeon-toed too, so his feet pointed inward instead of turning out the way a trained dancer's are supposed to, and instead of fighting it he turned his knees in and made that a move. Three things he was self-conscious about, all turned into a style.

The clip going around is from a 1974 movie, The Little Prince. Fosse plays the Snake. He came up with the dance himself, bought his own hat and gloves, even picked the camera angles. In the clip he's all in black under the desert sun, sliding across the sand, wrists flicking, before he stops dead. And he was no nobody: he had already beaten The Godfather to the Best Director Oscar for Cabaret. Pull up "Billie Jean" right after, and you're looking at the same man: the hat low over the eyes, the gloved hand, the trick where he holds completely still and then hits a pose that lands ten times harder because of the pause right before it.

Jackson knew exactly where it came from. In 1983 he took Fosse out to lunch, told him straight up how much his dancing had shaped his own, and tried to get him to work on the Thriller video. Fosse said no. He died four years later, in 1987.

Fosse didn't invent any of this from scratch either. He took it from the rundown stages and burlesque clubs where he started dancing as a kid, and from his own idol, Fred Astaire, the same way Jackson would later take it from him. The look that defined the King of Pop began with one man trying to cover up the parts of himself he couldn't stand.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Seriously.. I thought the drawing was a joke until... 😂

[Ryan Gasoline @Ryan_Gasoline]

Each droid is identified by a four digit series of letters and numbers. That’s only ~1.6 million combinations. It’s not enough for one planet, let alone a galaxy

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

The letter J was invented in 1524 in an essay by an Italian grammarian.

[suesspicious minds @suesspiciousmin]

@ItsRobbAllen We also learn that the R2 unit has many functions and is common throughout the galaxy, yet the naming convention allows for just 260 different ones (whilst our gym membership cards have to have 13 digits and 5 letters for some reason)

[The Retro Reminiscer @RetroReminiscer]

Paddington (2014)
Ghana Poster 🇬🇭
Art by Mr. Nana Agyq.

[Christianity On The Spectrum @ChristianityOn]

I conquered this by realizing that small talk was actually a competitive game that you could win at. It also has the pleasant side effect that winning makes other people feel good.

[癒される動物 @cutest_animal1]

毎日野良猫用に食べ物を置いてあげてたら、
毎回それを見て、おお！と驚きと感動の表情をしてくれる猫

[Ash Jogalekar @curiouswavefn]

Who says theoretical physicists never do experiments.

[𝑙𝑖𝑙𝑦𝑎 @lilyavibe]

falling in love

[Al Murray 🇺🇦 @almurray]

How can you not love this scandal?

[Catriona Stewart @CatrionaStewart]

Nicola Sturgeon's Desert Island Discs castaway luxuries were the complete works of Jane Austen and a coffee machine.

[PBF Comics @PBFcomics]

Gotcha

[Math Files @Math_files]

On The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper called 73 the best number. It sounds like a joke — but the math behind it is surprisingly beautiful.

First, 73 is a prime number. But it also holds a special spot in the list of primes. If you count them one by one, 73 turns out to be the 21st prime number. Now flip the digits of 73 and you get 37 which is the 12th prime number (21 reversed becomes 12).

Second, take the number 21 and factor it: 21 = 7 × 3. Those are the exact digits that make 73.

And finally, write 73 in binary (the language computers use): 1001001. Read it left to right or right to left — it’s the same. That makes it a binary palindrome.

[Dailymeow @Dailymeoww1]

In Saudi Arabia, a man offers his guests stray kittens instead of coffee😂
He “serves” the kittens he finds on the street so that his guests can adopt one of them and everyone ends up having a cat. It’s a really unusual and heartwarming idea 🥰❤️

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

Le chat, le grand illusionniste

[DiabloFilter @DiabloFilter]

@takes000731980 @Rob_2628 While this video isn't a full explanation of how loot filters work, it should give you a decent idea

https://t.co/6TZjswNBik

[German Simply 🇩🇪 @GermanSimply_]

German has a word for it. 🇩🇪

[Ed Campbell @edcmpbl]

Tell you what it must have been class if Peter Murrell got your name in the SNP secret Santa