the Barack Obama you don’t know

 

Maybe you don’t find these kind of things interesting, but I do. You can check out the rest here.

• He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball
• His name means “one who is blessed” in Swahili
• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father
• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.
• He uses an Apple Mac laptop
• He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300 SUV
• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire
• He was given the code name “Renegade” by his Secret Service handlers
• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds