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Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln. |
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| Everyone's favorite everyman isn't the only actor related to a president. Brad Pitt and Barack Obama are ninth cousins, Richard Gere is the sixth cousin four times removed of James Garfield, and Marilyn Monroe and George H.W. Bush were ninth cousins once removed, among others. Most surprising of all: Richard Nixon and James Dean, whose public personas couldn't be more different, were seventh cousins once removed. | |
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Tom Hanks owns more than 250 typewriters. | |||||||||
| Stamps and coins have inspired many a collector over the years, but Tom Hanks doesn't get out of bed for anything less than a typewriter. He has no fewer than 250 of them — as revealed in the 2017 documentary California Typewriter — 90% of which are in perfect working order. "What thrills me about typewriters is that they are meant to do one thing and one thing only," he said during an interview conducted for the film, "and with the tiniest amount of effort, and maintenance, it will last a thousand years." His obsession began in 1978, when he attempted to get a poorly made typewriter fixed and was instead sold a Hermes 2000 for $45. He even wrote a collection of short stories called Uncommon Type, with each tale featuring a typewriter. | |||||||||
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