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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was the 2nd person on earth to publicly report the news of Osama bin Laden's death, only 47 seconds after a navy intel officer leaked it from official sources.

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An American man was arrested near the border of Afghanistan while hunting down Osama bin Laden with a sword.

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  1. Osama Bin Laden had the "Charlie Bit My Finger" video in his computer's audio/visual collection

  2. People who believe Osama Bin Laden is still alive are more likely than most to believe Osama Bin Laden was already dead before the raid. Believing a conspiracy theory makes you more likely to believe other conspiracy theories, even if they are directly contradictory.

  3. In 2011, Fleshlight, a brand of artificial-vagina sex-toys, sent a complimentary package of its products to the members of the SEALs team that killed Osama bin Laden.

  4. On new years eve in 2010, restaurateur Ted Balestreri offered to open a bottle of 1870 Lafite Rothschild, one of the rarest wines in the world, for former CIA director Leon Panetta if he captured Osama Bin Laden. Five months later, Osama Bin Laden was captured and the bottle of wine was opened.

  5. Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden's height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden's corpse

  6. Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden's height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden's corpse.

  7. Bin Laden was made a wanted man by Gaddafi three years before 9/11

  8. 500 euro notes are often called "bin Ladens", because everyone knows what they look like, but they are really hard to find

  9. Pakistan arrested the doctor who helped CIA detect and confirm Osama bin laden's hideout by running DNA test obtained through a fake hepatitis camp run by Doctor shakil afridi. He was ordered 33 years in prison for treason against his country by giving info to CIA.

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Osama bin Laden's estranged son is a British resident, although his visa was initially declined because he "failed to state his father's permanent address."

The helicopter that crashed during the Bin Laden raid did so because in the training exercises, they used a chain fence, rather than a solid wall like what surrounded the real compound. The solid wall meant heat got trapped and rose up, causing the helicopter to have different flight properties. - source

After the successful raid that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden, Walt Disney attempted to trademark the term "SEAL Team 6". - source

The "Ramsey Effect", which states that almost every time soccer player Aaron Ramsey scores a goal someone famous dies within a few days. "Victims" of this include Osama Bin Laden, Whitney Houston, David Bowie, and most recently, Nancy Reagan.

MTV fired Russell Brand several days after coming to work dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after the 11 September 2001 attacks and bringing his drug dealer to the MTV studios - source

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Osama bin Laden left a will that he had written shortly after 9/11 in which he urged his children not to join al-Qaeda and not to continue the Jihad.

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Omar bin Laden (one of Osama bin Laden's sons) was supposedly denied a British spousal immigration visa because he did not provide his fathers permanent address

The Jeddah Tower, which is currently under construction in Saudi Arabia and will be the tallest building in the world upon its completion, is being constructed by the Saudi Binladin Group, which is owned by the family of Osama bin Laden, who destroyed two of the world's largest buildings.

Osama Bin Laden was actually killed by the CIA, and he had a significant stash of Opium near by. In preparation for the raid, the Seal team was legally signed over to CIA control for legal protection, and all records are shielded from the Freedom of Information Act.

Former French President Jacques Chirac once said Iraq War would create, "A large number of little Bin Ladens."

Osama Bin Laden's relatives own a massive construction business. The company is not currently allowed to take on new contracts because of a massive crane collapse that killed 118 on September 11, 2015.

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Although the Person of the Year title is about biggest influence "for better or for worse", Time has shied away from naming controversial figures for commercial reasons since the public backlash after naming Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. This is why in 2001 Osama bin Laden was not named.

Several days before the Invasion of Afghanistan, a CIA agent made an agreement with the military commander of the Taliban, to kill Bin Laden and capture his top Lieutenants. Before the plan could be carried out, the United States began its invasion.

Osama Bin Laden had a Steam account, Batman Gotham Knight and FF7 among many other such items

Russell Brand was originally a host for MTV UK but was fired for arriving at work dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after 9/11 and taking his drug dealer to the studio.

Senior Chief Robert O'Neill, the Navy SEAL that killed Bin Laden, also rescued Captain Phillips and Marcus Luttrell, the SEAL from the movie "Lone Survivor".

Osama Bin Laden's Father was once the richest non-Royal Saudi and He inherited $25-30 mill after his Father's death.

In Rambo III the character of John Rambo was fighting on the same side as Osama Bin Laden

The day after Osama bin Laden's death, Disney tried to trademark "SEAL Team 6"

The CIA once turned down a 'Freedom of Information Act' request that inquired about Osama Bin Laden's “fairly extensive” porn collection collected in the raid of his compound in 2011.

Osama Bin Laden was scammed out of $1.5 Million while trying to buy weapons-grade uranium

In the afternoon of 9/11, Rumsfeld gave the following directive to his aides: "Judge whether good enough hit S.H." (Saddam Hussein) at same time. Not only UBL" (Osama bin Laden). Need to move swiftly – Near term target needs – go massive – sweep it all up. Things related and not."

Green Beret Major Jim Gant, nicknamed “Lawrence of Afghanistan” by General Petraeus, went full native in Afghanistan during his last deployment in Kunar Province, and was allegedly marked for death by bin Laden himself.

Bin Laden was deeply obsessed with Whitney Houston, stating he wanted to possess Whitney, he would be willing to break his colour rule and make her one of his wives, plus giving her a mansion and planned to kill Bobby Brown.

In 2007, Australian satire group The Chaser successfully impersonated the Canadian motorcade to enter the secure zone of the APEC world leaders' summit, and were only caught when one man stepped out of the car dressed as Osama Bin Laden.

Bin Laden's Family was evacuated by the FBI shortly after 9/11 when they received a message from the Saudi ruler saying there were "bin Laden children all over America...Take measures to protect the innocents"

Osama Bin Laden was a huge fan of The Wonder Years, Miami Vice and MacGuyver. He also had an obsession with Whitney Houston, wanted to marry her and talked about having her husband Bobby Brown murdered.

Seth Myers joked about the government's inability to track down Osama Bin Laden at the 2011 White House Correspondent's Dinner, but Bin Laden would be killed a day later.

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

John O'neil an FBI agent that tried warning the government of Bin Laden and was forced out of the bureau. He went on to work security the the World Trade Center

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