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I have no doubt that every one of us has seen something odd in our textbooks—a name, an illustration or a graph that looks just a bit too odd or completely bizarre for it to be in a textbook.

Of course, to us as kids that was comedy gold and we’d go around showing everyone this unique and hilarious discovery. But now… well, yeah, it’s still super funny, but now it also begs the question “what were they thinking!?”

Believe it or not, there’s an entire Facebook group dedicated to sharing with the world the most ridiculous, yet scientifically accurate and true, illustrations and diagrams that people find hard to believe that they managed to make it into a textbook.

Bored Panda has collected some of the best examples for you to enjoy below. And while you’re down there, why not vote and comment on the ones you’ve liked the most!

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Javier Martínez‎ Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Do you want to build a snowman? It doesn't have to be a snowman."

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The Facebook group in question is called Science diagrams that look like s**tposts and is dedicated to sharing proper science illustrations, figures, and graphs from textbooks and other publications whose editors obviously never bothered to check the end product before printing, thus ending in results that are reminiscent of s**tposting—internet slang for creating content of no value.

The group was created by an internaut named Luke who found these diagrams really funny, while admitting he has no idea why—it just was, and we all understand it, though can’t entirely explain it.

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Tobin Hale Report

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La Petite Morte
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh dear.... ummm... seems like someone has a toddler and had a pet fish...

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It has over 448,000 members as of this article and even has its own Twitter account with over 500,000 followers. There’s an influx of hundreds of posts each month with members constantly sharing some of the most ridiculous, yet accurate, depictions of all things science.

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Shared imagery often involves animals and the natural world, but it’s not just how they depict it, but also what they write. Besides disfigured animals and humans, illustrations that raise more questions than they actually answer, and crappy design in general, there’s also the occasional mislabeling (whether deliberate or not, nobody is truly sure) of illustrations that raise eyebrows at the very least.

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More often than not, these diagrams are taken out of their academic and scientific contexts, making it raise even more eyebrows, though others, even within context, would still look odd making people think how is this scientific because of how they are visually depicted.

It is interesting to think that s**tposting is, in some shape or form, present in the actual scientific community, especially in physics. There is this metaphor of the spherical cow which is a highly simplified model of a complex real-life phenomenon where a problem is reduced to its simplest form so that brainy people could make the calculations more feasible, despite it being no longer applicable in reality. So, some scientists are used to this.

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Josepha Philippa‎ Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I confess! I burned the body and hid the skeleton in the police station!"

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For more hilarious scientific oddities presented in image form on the internet, you can check out the Facebook group or follow their Twitter. Or just keep scrolling! But before you go, let us know what you thought of this. Do you have any stories to share about your textbooks? Leave us a comment below!

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Eva Murphy Report

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Sergio Bicerra Descalzi
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like when influencers use photoshop to enlarge their butt, but the background gets a little bit of surgery too.

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Clancy Xanecrest‎ Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This concept can really only be taught in a hands-on lab setting. Let's investigate with a large sample size. And several jams for variables.

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Marina Klemm Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i was just about to correct you and say "matt" but i realized what you meant

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Tracey Hyde
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shouldn't Matt be dancing like no one's watching in one of those frames?

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Mary Rose Kent
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He’s certainly doing that in his brain, especially after visiting Mark, Mrs. Mark, and all of the little Marklings. Also, the Mark family over-reproduced!

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Dragonfruit'nrollerskates
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

However, Matt has lived a full and eventful life, did not feel the need to have children, and did not contribute to the worldwide problem that is overpopulation. Yay Matt!

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Mary Rose Kent
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Got to do all kinds of wonderful things: attended plays, movies, concerts; visited every continent except Antarctica and lived in Bangkok for a year and can now speak Thai; have all the sex partners he wants or none if he’d rather not; sings in a high-level choir; can afford to live in San Francisco. Sounds like Matt had a great life.

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Gurt B. Frobe
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Matt was convicted of committing 3 counts of premeditated murder when he was 22. He's been serving out his life sentence ever since. Matt was even more committed to reducing the population than y'all give him credit for.

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Lily Iris
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know what to say about "passing the genes to the next generations" since they are twkn brothers and share the same gene pool

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Mary Rose Kent
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, unless they marry twin sisters, they’ll still have variations in the gene pool.

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Marky Mark
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is not shown in the diagram are Matt's boat, nice house, cottage, and fantastic vacations. At 45 Matt is constantly wooed pretty, divorced women. Life is good.

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ThatGuv
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Matt has a fantastically small carbon footprint compared to Mark.

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Nia Loves Art
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is never too late to find someone and fall in love. Maybe Matt will meet a nice lady stick figure to spend his final years with.

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Henry Cheves
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The green people have 4 kids. The purple family has 3 kids. The blue family has 2 kids. Mark has 9 grandchildren in 3 different families, along with a brother. How can Mark fit everyone in to his holiday schedule?

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JessG
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I need the rest of the information here, what are we trying to learn?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And that's why Matt no longer comes to Thanksgiving dinner, because Mark and his kids and grandkids make fun of Uncle Matt. But Matt enjoyed the 70s and 80s a lot more.

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Matt will forever be single. Mark has f**ked to many people.

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Pedro Waffle Fajardo Report

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La Petite Morte
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So.... angry about being happy, disgustingly happy, inconsolably happy, afraid of his own happiness, surprised that he's happy, and happy that he feels nothing.

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Mark Ordonio‎ Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The little white baby becomes a small black child who grows into a dancing teen girl who matures into 1980's yuppie man. Women spring fully formed from the ether, merge with the 80's yuppie to form a small white baby. Got it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let me explain the big chill is when all stars die and there is no more heat. The big crunch is when gravity collapses the universe into a black hole. Big rip is when the universe expands so much the fabric of spacetime unravels. Big snap is like big rip but the mini-dimesions unravel too and make a new universe. Death bubble are black holes that turn into strange matter holes that consume the whole universe.

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Ann Taylor‎ Report

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You could literally say that about any mammal... and if you don't ignore the mouth and internal organs most mammals are doughnuts.

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Note: this post originally had 60 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes.