Library of Alexandria - Online Education on Instagram: "🚨Check out the link in my bio to learn more🔗 You think you understand things simply because they feel familiar. But familiarity isn’t knowledge. Psychologists call this the illusion of explanatory depth—the tendency to believe we know how something works until we’re forced to explain it. Most people can’t accurately describe how a toilet flushes, how a zipper locks, or how inflation really happens. Yet they’re convinced they “get it.” Thi

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