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What other things are there that exhibit this phenomenon? I am curious, I bet there are quite a few.

Anything where the image we associate with X is not the real X for some historical reason.

Or more generally it could extend to prose, art etc.

literally everything in the world

everything you have been taught is a lie

literally nothing is the way you think it is, because only extreme oversimplifications of reality fit in our heads

wow, i didn't expect 'the map is not the territory' to be so controversial ;)