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TIL that Nixon said “I am not a crook” at Disney World

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pYVb TIL than Ayn Rand was very pro-abortion. “An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).”
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