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To give an example of why everyone is confused...
There's a dead horse pinned beneath a flaming tree on a wet ground. Occam's razor would tell us the tree fell on the horse after it was struck by lightning.
An eccentric explanation would be that the horse was cold so it went to the store to buy a lighter and a tank of gas, lit the tree on fire. The fire scared the horse so it dumped buckets of water in the tree, but it was too late. The flames caused it to fall on the horse, which killed it.
Do you see why there is no such thing of an eccentric example of Occam's razor? Occam's razor is the idea that least eccentric explanation is what probably happened.