Yes, this is real.

Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found that Barack Obama is a distant cousin of Brad Pitt and Hillary Clinton is related to Angelina Jolie.

Clinton’s French-Canadian heritage also made her a distant cousin of Madonna, Alanis Morissette and Celine Dion. Obama’s extended family tree has no singers, but lots of White House inhabitants: President George W. Bush and his father, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harrs S. Truman and James Madison. Obama is also a cousin of Winston Churchill, Robert E. Lee and finally, Dick Cheney.

That’s got to make some awkward Christmas dinner conversations.

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