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When reading up on the Ilitch family, who seem to be the only ones determined to actually make something nice in Michigan (why, I have no idea, I guess the long defeat is a noble cause), I came across this little wikipedia gem:

The family was presented the key to the City of Detroit by then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on February 14, 2008. They are only the fifth recipients in the history of the city, the others being actor James Earl Jones, Saddam Hussein, neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson, and Pittsburgh Steeler Jerome Bettis.

I checked, and yes: Saddam Hussein received the key to the city after donating about $450,000 to a local christian church back in 1979 - before he turned evil it seems.

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