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Evolution of dad dancing, Bill Murray photobomb and more links we love right now

Editor's note: There's so much that's beautiful, funny, smart and informative on the Internet. Problem is, there's also a bunch of garbage. Here's the best of the web right now:

1. Evolution of dad dancing with Jimmy Fallon and Chris Christie. In honor of Father's Day, take a trip down memory lane to weddings, birthday parties and other occasions when your dad embarrassed the crap out of you by dancing with abandon.

2. Bill Murray crashes a couple's engagement photo session. Bill Murray continues to make life infinitely more interesting in Charleston, North Carolina. The eccentric Hollywood legend happened upon a couple at an engagement photo session downtown and inserted himself into it.

3. Here's a video of Robin van Persie's ridiculous header. The World Cup is upon us, and that means hours and hours of soccer and a few moments of ridiculously awesome plays like this one that make it all worth it.

4. There are more museums in America than there are Starbucks and McDonalds combined. If you've been worried about the decline of American culture with the rise of a Starbucks of McDonald's on every corner, then fear not. Apparently we have more museums than lattes after all.

5. The U.S. Government is investigating why your Netflix is so slow. Who says the government doesn't listen to the average Joe anymore? And it's not even an election year. Go get 'em, Uncle Sam.

Bill Murray crashed this nice couple's engagement photo shoot.

Bill Murray photobomb

Photo by Fia Forever Photography

Bill Murray crashed this nice couple's engagement photo shoot.

Movie Memorabilia

Dallas auction house hawks stolen ruby slippers from Wizard of Oz

Ruby slippers

Heritage Auctions

Wizard of Oz ruby slippers.

DALLAS (AP) — A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz is on the auction block nearly two decades after a thief stole the iconic shoes, convinced they were adorned with real jewels.

Online bidding has started and will continue through December 7, Heritage Auctions in Dallas announced in a news release Monday.

The shoes are part of a bigger auction of Hollywood memorabilia which also includes items from films such as Cast Away, Easy Rider, and Back to the Future Part II.

Other items from The Wizard of Oz include a witch hat worn by Margaret Hamilton’s Wicked Witch of the West, the screen door from Dorothy’s Kansas home, the gloves Bert Lahr wore as the Cowardly Lion, and producer Mervyn LeRoy’s copy of the Wizard of Oz script from the MGM art department.

The auction company received the sequin-and-bead-bedazzled slippers from Michael Shaw, the memorabilia collector who originally owned the footwear at the heart of the beloved 1939 musical. Shaw had loaned the shoes in 2005 to the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

That summer, someone smashed through a display case and stole the slippers. Their whereabouts remained a mystery until the FBI recovered them in 2018. The man who stole the ruby slippers, Terry Jon Martin, was 76 when he was sentenced in January to time served because of his poor health.

Now the museum is among those vying for the slippers, which were one of several pairs Garland wore during the filming. Only four remain. This particular pair are considered to be the most valuable of the four, in that they were the ones used in close-ups of Dorothy clicking her heels.

Other items include a "Wilson" basketball from Tom Hanks film Cast Away; a stars-and-stripes motorcycle helmet worn by Peter Fonda in Easy Rider; and the “BAT-1/GOTHAM CITY” license plate from Adam West’s Batmobile; and a wooden hoverboard from Back to the Future Part II, signed by Michael J. Fox and writer-producer Bob Gale. According to Heritage Auctions, this Mattel hhoverboard has "impeccable provenance," as it comes from Fox’s stunt double Charlie Croughwell, who writes in his letter of authenticity that “this Hoverboard has been in my possession beginning with our first day of Flying Rehearsals up until present day.”

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