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" Ever wonder what the candidates are like away from the microphones and podiums? Want to know what they&amp;#039;re like when they&amp;#039;re not running for president? We&amp;#039;re letting you in on the real Barack Obama. Here are 15 things you probably didn&amp;#039;t know about the Democratic senator from Illinois! 1. Barack was born and raised in Hawaii, but he has also lived in Jakarta, Indonesia with his mom, who worked there as an anthropologist!  2. When he was younger, everyone called him &amp;quot;Barry.&amp;quot;  3. His birthday is on August 4th. (He&amp;#039;s a Leo!) 4. While they were living in Indonesia, his mom used to wake him up every day at 4 AM to give him English lessons! Ouch!  5. He&amp;#039;s a huge basketball fan. Growing up, he had a poster of &amp;quot;Dr. J&amp;quot; (Julius Erving) of the Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers on his wall! (New York Times) 6. He played for his high school&amp;#039;s basketball team, which won the Hawaii state championship during his senior year. Barack was number 23 \u2014 the same number as Michael Jordan! (HBO Sports) 7. His great-uncle, Charlie Payne, helped liberate one of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald during World War II.  8. At 28, he was elected President of the prestigious Harvard Law Review, becoming the first African-American ever to hold the position!  9. When he first started dating Michelle, Barack was totally broke, and his car was so old that the passenger door had a hole in it from all the rust! Michelle says she ended up paying for some of their dates. (Hyde Park Herald) 10. Barack was a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was super popular with his students! He taught a class on constitutional law and a seminar on racism and the law.  11. Growing up, Where the Wild Things Are was one of his favorite books \u2014 and he still loves it! His other faves include The Bible, Moby Dick, and Shakespeare&amp;#039;s tragedies. (American Library Association speech, Facebook) 12. He&amp;#039;s not a big fan of television \u2014 especially not for his two daughters, Sasha and Malia! (Shh \u2014 the girls&amp;#039; grandma lets them bend the rules a bit while Dad is away campaigning!) 13. He loves to make chili and has been using his own family recipe since he was in college! (ABC News) 14. He gives his daughters an allowance of $1 per week for doing their chores, which include making their beds and setting and clearing the dinner table. (People) 15. Barack&amp;#039;s first memoir, Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance was a #1 New York Times bestseller and won a Grammy in 2006 for Best Spoken Word Album! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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