Barack Obama

Some Lesser Known Facts About Barack Obama

• Does Barack Obama smoke?: No (quit smoking in 2010)

• Does Barack Obama drink alcohol?: Yes

• Obama’s parents met in a Russian language class in 1960, at the University of Hawai’i.

• Obama’s father died in a road accident when Barack was just 21 years old.

• In his teenage, Obama became a member of a group made by his friends called “Choom Gang” and occasionally smoked marijuana.

• Obama made his first public speech at the Occidental College, Los Angeles in 1979.

• He traveled for the first time to Europe in mid-1988.

• In 1995, Obama published a memoir “Dreams from My Father”.

• For twelve years, he taught at the University of Chicago Law School from 1996 to 2004.

• He was one of the early opponents of the George W. Bush administration’s 2003 invasion of Iraq.

• Kenya has named a beer dedicating to Obama- “Senator Keg”.

• He is pretty good at making chili and stir-fry.

• Obama loves collecting comics. Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian are among his favorite ones.

• Once Obama was a chain-smoker, but he quit smoking in 2010 for his children.

• Obama owns a pair of boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali.

• He won Grammy Awards twice for Best Spoken Word Album: first, in 2006, for “Dreams from My Father” and second, in 2008, for “The Audacity of Hope”.

• In an interview, he said that had he not been into politics, he would be an architect.

• On May 22, 2018, Barack Obama, along with his wife Michelle Obama, signed a deal to produce docu-series, documentaries, and features for Netflix under Obama’s newly formed production company, Higher Ground Productions.

• In December 2019, he shared his most-loved movies and TV shows of the year 2019. In a Facebook post, Obama wrote-
  

  This year’s list includes everything from explorations of class dynamics and relationships, to an inspired reboot of a classic graphic novel, to a portal back to one of the most special places in history — an Aretha Franklin concert.”

  The 44th president’s picks of the year 2019 ranged from well-reviewed features to documentaries, including “Parasite,” “Little Women,” “Marriage Story,” “The Irishman” and the new Netflix documentary “American Factory,” a film from Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground. ^[9]CNN

• On July 27, 2021, the NBA announced that Obama had bought a stake in the NBA’s Africa business through his foundation. According to the NBA, Obama will hold a minority equity stake in NBA Africa.