What is the difference in “persons” and “people”?

Question

And when would they be used properly?

I grew up using only “people” then I feel like one day the words “persons” started to get used in society and I don’t know why or when to use it.

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I think people is a bunch of “person” in the same place, but “Persons” differentiates between different people when you wanna. Like a school of fish or a sea of fishes.

So persons would be referring to multiple individual but separate “people” (a building full of black people, white people and Asian people, and it’s important to differentiate)