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The 50 facts you might not know Fifty things you might not know about Barack Obama
By Jon Swaine
Last Updated: 3:40PM GMT 11 Nov 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3401168/Barack-Obama-The-50-facts-you-might-not-know.html
? 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 ? 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 ? 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 fiance, 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
? 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 "Bar" 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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