The last blank spot on the map

>looks inside

So the whole white glove thing comes from early black & white animation, most notably the Mickey Mouse shorts, but also the Looney Tunes and the Max Fleischer toons. The gloves serve two purposes: 

One; the gloves are big and makes those over-the-top hand gestures more prominent. It allows the characters to be more expressive, which is necessary for some of the mute cartoons.

Secondly, these characters tend to be completely black, like Felix the Cat (who was one of the inspirations for Mickey). The black color is easier to animate, but you end up with a problem: if their hands were over their bodies or a dark background, you wouldn’t see them! In Mickey’s first appearance in Steamboat Willie, Mickey and Pete don’t have their gloves, and everything kind of bleeds together.

Adding the gloves in the later shorts, you can see the distinction between his body and hands. Problem solved!

Even after technicolor cartoons arrived, the gloves stuck. 

Sister Clarence Paul prepares a photomicrograph of Paramecium trichium in the science laboratory.

I have many padlocks (and other, uh, lockable devices) to which I probably have the keys somewhere but it's frankly quicker to pick (or in some cases, technically bypass but what most people would still call picking) the lock than find the right key.

And usually yes, that quickly.

I was not expecting the visceral nature of this picking; the single thrust and twist, the casual toss, the verbal disdain, the sense like you just watched something be swiftly gutted.

Bat in Moon, Biho Takashi, ca. 1905, Brooklyn Museum: Asian Art

Size: 9 ¼ x 9 9/16 in. (23.5 x 24.3 cm) Medium: Color woodblock print on paper