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TIL Dwayne Johnson knew about Osama Bin Laden's assassination before we did - and broke the news on Twitter

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b96dQ TIL in a 1988 episode of "Alvin and the Chipmunks" called "The Wall", the Chipmunks play a concert at the Berlin Wall and see it crumbling down, only to awaken from a dream and say, "It was just a dream, but it doesn't have to be." 11 months later, the Berlin Wall came down in real life.
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