17 facts about Barack Obama





1. In 2006 he won the Grammy Award for "Best Album conversational genre».

2. In 2005, Obama and his wife bought a house in Chicago for more than $ 1, 5 million.

3. According to his wife, Michelle Obama, Barack is very romantic, and often presents flowers to his wife.

4. Obama does not like ice cream, because when he was a teenager, he worked in Baskin-Robbins.

5. He likes to play Scrabble and poker.

6. Barack father - a Kenyan, his mother - English, Scottish, Irish and German descent.

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8. Obama - the first US president since Eisenhower, who was smoking a cigarette. Quit smoking in March 2010 (officially it was announced in February 2011).

9. He was born in Honolulu, but when his parents divorced, he moved with his mother in Indonesia. There he first tried dog meat, snake and fried grasshoppers.

10. at home every evening, Obama is reading a book "Harry Potter" her eldest daughter.

11. Obama Height - 187 cm. Height of his wife - 180 cm.

12. The government of the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda after Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election in the US was renamed in honor of Obama his highest mountain.

13. Obama - a lefty.

14. In honor of Obama called the plant-lichen caloplaca Obama (Caloplaca obamae).

15. In an interview with CNBC at the White House, Obama killed arm prevented him fly, commented saying: "a good idea, right? I have it udelal ».

16. Barack Obama appeared on the show "Mythbusters" on Discovery in the release titled "The sun's rays Archimedes." He personally instructs Adam Savage and Jamie Heinemann recheck ancient legend about how the antique scientist Archimedes burnt the Roman fleet with the help of sunlight passing through a system of mirrors.

17. In April 2011, broke a political scandal involving Republican Marilyn Davenport, a member of the Party Central Committee of Orange County. Davenport in private correspondence sent out to colleagues image of Obama in the form of chimpanzees.



Source: www.polblog.ru

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