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TIL: That the actor Tom Hanks is distant cousin of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln. Hanks also narrated a 2011 documentary about the former President, entitled Killing Lincoln. (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, [arbitrary actor] is [arbitrary relatedness] to [arbitrary person] is always true and not very interesting.

Any given human is approximately 520,000th cousins 70,000th removed from any given chimp.

(5.2E5, 7E4), assuming human generations are approximately 29 years apart, chimps 24, and that it's stepped, also that we diverged about 13 mya.