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TIL that The Rock holds dual citizenship in US and Canada. Rocky Johnson (The Rock’s father) was born in Nova Scotia. He is descendant of Black Loyalists, who escaped a southern plantation after the American Revolutionary War and emigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada.

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