Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know

• He has perused each Harry Potter book 
• He possesses an arrangement of red boxing gloves signed by Muhammad Ali 
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins frozen yogurt shop as a youngster and now can't stand dessert 
• His most loved snacks are chocolate-nut protein bars 
• He ate pooch meat, wind meat, and broiled grasshopper while living in Indonesia 
• He can communicate in Spanish 
• While on the battle field he declined to watch CNN and had sports channels on 
• His most loved drink is dark woodland berry frosted tea 
• He guaranteed Michelle he would stop smoking before running for president – he didn't 
• He kept a pet gorilla called Tata while in Indonesia 
• He can seat press a great 200lbs 
• He was known as Barry until college when he requested that be tended to by his full name 
• His most loved book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 
• He went to Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag gathering of his stepsister's life partner, however left when a stripper arrived 
• His work area in his Senate office once had a place with Robert KennedyHe and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) a year ago, with much originating from offers of his books 
• His most loved movies are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 
• He conveys a little Madonna and kid statue and a wristband having a place with an officer in Iraq for good fortunes 
• He connected to show up in a dark stick up date-book while at Harvard yet was dismisses by the all-female advisory group. 
• His most loved music incorporates 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 appreciates playing Scrabble and poker 
• He doesn't drink espresso and seldom drinks liquor 
• He would have jumped at the chance to have been a designer on the off chance that he were not a government official 
• As an adolescent he took drugs including pot and cocaine 
• His little girls' aspirations are to go to Yale before turning into an on-screen character (Malia, 10) and to sing and move (Sasha, 7) 
• He abhors the adolescent pattern for trousers which droop underneath the rear 
• He reimbursed his understudy advance just four years back in the wake of marking his book bargain 
• His home in Chicago has four chimneys 
• Little girl Malia's adoptive parent is Jesse Jackson's little girl Santita 
• He says his most noticeably bad propensity is continually checking his BlackBerry 
• He utilizes an Apple Mac portable workstation 
• He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having dumped his gas-chugging Chrysler 300 
• He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits 
• He possesses four indistinguishable sets of dark size 11 shoes 
• He has his hair style once every week by his Chicago hairdresser, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13) 
• His most loved anecdotal TV projects are Mash and The Wire 
• He was given the code name "Rebel" by his Secret Service handlers 
• He was nicknamed "Bar" by his late grandma 
• He wants to introduce a ball court in the White House grounds 
• His most loved craftsman is Pablo Picasso 
• His strength as a cook is stew 
• He has said a large portion of his companions in Indonesia were "road urchins" 
• He continues his work area a cutting of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan image of the delicacy of life 
• His late father was a senior market analyst for the Kenyan government.