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TIL That in 1980, Saddam Hussein was awarded the key to the city of Detroit.

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LL09 TIL before the Emancipation Proclamation, Union commanders effectively “freed” Southern slaves they encountered by declaring them “contraband” and seizing them. The slaves were employed as non-combat laborers and given a wage and rations, and many later enlisted as soldiers in the Union Army.
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