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Giado concentration camp

... that Libyan Jews and Arabs traded and bartered with each other at the fence of the Giado concentration camp (pictured)?
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... that Benjamin Jackson was likely paid at least $300 to fight in the American Civil War as Lewis Saunders?
... that, of the three presidents of the Chamber of Dutch Culture, two were arrested and one was assassinated?
... that the inclusion of two preteen competing performers at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 led to the introduction of an age rule for participants at future contests?
... that a gunman who, in 1960, shot three people dead in Sheffield, England, was deported to Somalia, where he was killed in a shoot-out while "running amok"?
... that Iowa government social worker Catherine G. Williams started out as a tap dancer?
... that Banner in the Sky inspired a Canadian dentist to climb the Matterhorn?

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