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From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content: ... that the Afghan snowfinch (pictured) is the only bird endemic toAfghanistan? ... that the American jihadists Troy Kastigar (died in Somalia, 2009) and Douglas McCain (died in Syria, 2014) both hailed from the Twin Cities area in Minnesota and attended the same high school? ... that Ghassan Alian is the first non-Jewish commander of the Israel Defense Forces' Golani Brigade? ... that the 1911 book Political Parties, which introduced the iron law of oligarchy, remains a classic of the social sciences? ... that The Beatles sold for over £19,000? ... that the Gulf Coast kangaroo rat has two distinct color forms, ashy grey or reddish/yellowish-buff? ... that accommodation at No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF was, according to the unit history, "bleak and depressing", and deficiencies in equipment "too numerous for itemising"?