Celebrity Facts [√]

Barack Obama

1) He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball.

2) Growing up, he collected Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics.

3) He worked at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager. He must have eaten too much ice-cream because now he says he is not a fan of the dessert.

4) As a teenager, he experimented with drugs including marijuana and cocaine.

5) He is an orphan. His father died in a car accident in Kenya in 1982, and his mother died of ovarian cancer in 1995.

6) Rather embarrassingly, Obama applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while he was studying at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee. They probably regret this now.

7) On his first date with Michelle, he took her to see the movie, "Do The Right Thing". Michelle said his "first car had so much rust that there was a rusted hole in the passenger door"."

8) He has read every Harry Potter book with Malia, his eldest daughter.

9) He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck.

10) He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol.

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11) Obama's go-to drink is black forest berry iced tea.

12) His favorite healthy snack are apples.

13) He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president - but he was unfortunately unable to kick the habit. He did reportedly quit in 2010.

14) He is left-handed - the sixth post-war president to be left-handed.

15) He is the first U.S. president to tweet.

16) His favorite artists to listen to while he works out include the Rolling Stones, Jay Z and Stevie Wonder.

17) What would Obama being doing if politics hadn't worked out? He would have been an architect.

18) Barack Obama owns a pair of boxing gloves owned by Muhammad Ali.

19) Obama's favorite sport is basketball. With his 6'1 ½ height; it adds to his advantage on the basketball court.

20) Don't mess with him, Obama can bench press an impressive 200lbs.

21) He loves the sport so much, he plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds. He might have to get started soon on this plan.

22) He dislike it when youngsters wear sagging trousers which reveal their
underwear.

23) He is the first U.S. president to endorse same-sex marriage, but says the legal issue should be up to the states.

24) Obama once said the three men he admired the most were Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

25) Is he an Apple or PC guy? MacBook reigns supreme in his books.