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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."

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