London, Nov. 9 : Here, according to The Telegraph, are the fifty facts about US presidential elect Barack Obama that you might know of.

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics 

• He was known as "O''Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball 

• His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili 

• His favourite meal is wife Michelle''s shrimp linguini 

• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father 

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

• He has read every Harry Potter book 

• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali 

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

• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars 

• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia 

• He can speak Spanish 

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

• His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea 

• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn''t 

• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia 

• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs 

• He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name 

• His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 

• He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister''s fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived 

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

• He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books 

• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest 

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

• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee. 

• His favourite music includes 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 enjoys playing Scrabble and poker 

• He doesn''t drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol 

• He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician 

• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine 

• His daughters'' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7) 

• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside 

• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal 

• His house in Chicago has four fire places 

• Daughter Malia''s godmother is Jesse Jackson''s daughter Santita 

• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry 

• He uses an Apple Mac laptop 

• He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300 SUV 

• He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits 

• He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes 

• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13) 

• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire 

• He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers 

• He was nicknamed "Bear" by his late grandmother 

• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds 

• His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso 

• His speciality as a cook is chilli 

• He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins" 

• He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life 

• His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government (ANI)