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TIL there was a Tea Party group boycotting Fox News last year for becoming ‘too liberal’

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E1aQP TIL The Kuleshov effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.
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QNZke TIL of Hannie Schaft, a Dutch resistance fighter known as "the girl with the red hair" during WWII. She committed assassinations and sabotage but refused to kidnap a Nazi official's children. During her execution, she was shot and injured, challenging her killers by saying, "I shoot better."