TIL: The rent on President Obama’s Columbia apartment is just about the same as your tumblr’s Brooklyn apartment is now, nearly 30 years later. As he turns 50, we dug up that and more of the numbers behind the world’s most powerful man.

Rrrrrrrupdate! A reader helpfully points out this is the cost to rent his apartment today. A much simpler metric to compare apartments by. 

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    Happy Birthday Barack Hussein Obama II

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    The Presidents Life in Numbers as he turns 50 today

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    Today in infographics we love.

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    Happy Birthday Mr. President!

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    Happy 50th Birthday, Mr. President!

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