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TIL of a British Army Gurkha who, in 2010, single-handily fought off up to 30 Taliban fighters to stop his position being overrun

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5VnyR TIL that (Spaghetti) Puttanesca means "in the style of a whore" or may also have originally been named, "I just threw a bunch of shit from the cupboard into a pan.”
X0XR TIL when you see something for the first time then start to see it everywhere, it is called the ‘Baader-Meinhof phenomenon’.
grwRA TIL that Shi Yousan, a Chinese general, betrayed a total of seven forces (the forces of Wu Peifu, Feng Yuxiang, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, Zhang Xueliang, the Chinese Communist Party, and Japan) and thus was known as the "Defector General".
16oJD TIL Occam's Razor, the principle which advocates for simplicity in explanations and theories (literally and specifically "Plurality must never be posited without necessity") is named after William of Ockham. The spelling variation "Occam" likely arose due to changes in transliteration over time.
69LLJ TIL Four of the last 7 Illinois Govenors have been jailed