• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire
• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream
© Callie Shell / Aurora for Time. I loved that he cleaned up after himself before leaving an ice cream shop in Wapello, Iowa. He didn't have to. The event was over and the press had left. He is used to taking care of things himself and I think this is one of the qualities that makes Obama different from so many other political candidates I've encountered. Nov. 7, 2007.