01. Sam is definitely a dog person. He's not a fan of cats because they walk around thinking they own the world. Sharing a head with a big dangerous cat will not please him.
02. He will eat basically anything. And likes really weird food combos. His favorite may be dipping pizza into gravy with hot peppers on top. He also eats raw egg noodles. Maybe it's the starchy crunchiness?
03. Sam worked really well with one of his professors at Cornell, and basically kissed so much ass and turned on all the charm to get a spot in his research lab. Their research was awarded the Rockefeller Prentice Memorial Award in Animal Breeding and Genetics, something that pissed off all of Sam's colleagues to no end. But he likes that sort of thing, so he didn't care.
04. When he was in high school, he was the master prankster. One year was reserved for putting a cow on the roof of the school (cows can walk upstairs, but they can't go down). Assembling a car in the hallway was one of his greatest achievements. It may still be talked about to this day.
05. He's never been in love!
06. He's also never owned or lived in an actual house. It was always apartment complexes that were on the shitty side. His goal is to eventually buy a house with enough room for an awesome library and maybe a pinball machine.
07. Sam's played pretty much every sport too. It's not like he loved them per se, but they got him away from the ramshackle apartment du jour. He still enjoys a good game of rugby, and he likes crew racing too.
08. He definitely has a Bucket List. With so many random things on it. Like see Petra, learn to play the glockenspiel, and invent something useless to sell on an informerical like the Snuggie.
09. Doing anything reckless and death-defying would appeal to him - once he researched everything related to the activity first. He doesn't really fly by the seat of his pants.