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50 facts you might not know about Obama

   November 10, 2008

The Telegraph came up with this list. Here are a few of my favorites:

• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed

• He has read every Harry Potter book

• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can’t stand ice cream

• He can speak Spanish

• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead

• He can bench press 200lbs

• His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy

• His favorite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry

• He uses an Apple Mac laptop

• His favorite fictional television programs 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

• His specialty as a cook is chili.

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