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Closer by degrees

Sarah Dean

Every so often those clever chaps at Google put a cute trick into one of their online applications. These hidden surprises are usually of no practical use, but drive millions of people to find out what happens when you type ‘askew’ and ’tilt’ into a search box. Their latest fun trick is that you can now find out the Bacon number of any actor in the world. An actor’s Bacon number is the number of people that link them to the Footloose star Kevin Bacon.  

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