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50 facts you might not know
⢠He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
⢠He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball
⢠His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili
⢠His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini
⢠He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father
⢠He is left-handed â the sixth post-war president to be left-handed
⢠He has read every Harry Potter book
⢠He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali
⢠He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream
⢠His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars
⢠He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
⢠He can speak Spanish
⢠While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead
⢠His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea
⢠He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president â he didn't
⢠He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia
⢠He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
⢠He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name
⢠His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
⢠He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived
⢠His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
⢠He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books
⢠His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
⢠He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck
⢠He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.
⢠His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees
⢠He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date
⢠He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker
⢠He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol
⢠He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician
⢠As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine
⢠His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7)
⢠He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside
⢠He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
⢠His house in Chicago has four fire places
⢠Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita
⢠He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry
⢠He uses an Apple Mac laptop
⢠He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300 SUV
⢠He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits
⢠He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes
⢠He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13)
⢠His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire
⢠He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers
⢠He was nicknamed "Bear" by his late grandmother
⢠He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds
⢠His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso
⢠His speciality as a cook is chilli
⢠He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"
⢠He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life
⢠His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government
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I did not know any of those.
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I like him more now knowing he's a smoker, wonder if they're Kools
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who Wrote:I like him more now knowing he's a smoker, wonder if they're Kools and the gang
yeah me too.
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