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When opening a science textbook, fun is the last thing that comes to your mind. A brief moment of reminiscence takes you back to the sweaty school corridors and the ever-present anxiety of not having done your homework. But if you press pause on the moment in your memory where you’d read those odd science textbooks with the hardback covers, you’ll notice something weird. The infographics are the key word. How on earth did everybody think they were just fine?

Fast forward to today, and there’s a whole wave of adult people collecting such bizarrely captivating examples of science diagrams which may as well pass as some sort of colorful sketches by surrealist artists. No sense, no logic, no rules, just pure anything-goes kind of science-based improvisation.

And thanks to the hugely popular Twitter page "Science Diagrams that Look Like Sh*tposts," with an ever-growing audience of 754.3K followers, we now have some of the most solid winners in the funny and the weird departments. If you go “but why?” you can be sure you’re not alone, and that the science infographic is casting its spell on you.

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Danger Response Send for help Airways Breathing CPR Defibrillator Drs ABCD

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    Madison Feehan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀

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    Science Diagrams that Look Like S**tposts” Twitter page and the Facebook group which runs by the same name is a bizarre corner of the internet that collects illustrations so bizarre that it has earned a solid fanbase. The project has amassed 754.1K Twitter followers and 20,634 people on Facebook who like the page and come in for a daily weird and wonderful treat.

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being chased by muscle man will make you move the hell away from there

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    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH...."Casually"

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tears of joy welled in Robert's eyes. He wasn't too old at 47!

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    It makes you wonder whether the publishers of these textbooks ever bothered to look at the content before submitting volumes upon volumes to print. But the internet is crazy about the s**tposting content that refers to the internet slang which means content of no value.

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    According to Urban Dictionary, “any content on the internet whose humor derives from its surreal nature and/or its lack of clear context” can be defined as a s**tpost. But it differs from a meme: “whereas a meme's humor comes from its repeatability, a s**tpost is funny simply because it isn't a predictable repetition of an existing form. S**tposts can become memes, but memes cannot become s**tposts.”

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    Tiggy Darling
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Is that a crocodile or alligator dear?" "Hmm, pass me the baby..."

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    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We know which nation uses other objects to measure other things... I won't say who because people will say I'm racist again

    Lily Mae Kitty
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you think a country is a race, you have bigger problems than downvotes.

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    Batwench
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But what size hamburger? Quarter pounder, cheap disc of “meat”? Not enough details here.

    Sakuhana
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    American or European size burgers?

    Tom Hardeveld
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wow, that must be 2½ washingmachines!

    Heather Makemson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And a bear weighs as much as the humans he's eaten. Science is amazing, no?

    Zophra
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw this image under a caption that said "Americans will use any form of measurment over the metric system."

    pusheen buttercup
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The bicycle is for working off those burgers!

    Duncan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn't there a better comparison....maybe 1600 sandwiches?

    Duncan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Surely there is a better weight comparison. Maybe 1600 sandwiches?

    Lia
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    they could probably make 800 to!

    debrina blackmoon
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok, but HOW TALL of a bicycle??? How much do the(cooked/uncooked) burgers weigh??? Are all adult deer the SAME height??? I need clarification!

    F. H.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A European roe deer is about as big as a bicycle. Most other deer are bigger.

    Christine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where is the banana for scale?

    Boredzzz
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know that 'a football field' is an official unit of measurement in the US ..so why not hamburgers. Wouldn't surprise me if someone told me they are six pringles tubes tall

    DC
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... and they have the surface area of exactly 2000 cat's ears...

    Daniel Atkins
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If we are going to us arbitrary units why not use bananas I want to know in Bananas.

    James016
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does the weight comparison account for burger buns, cheese, sauce etc or is it just the patties

    Felype Rennan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Murikans and their stupid measurement systems

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Please tell me this is just one of a series comparing the heights of animals and literary icons

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    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I get it.. they are showing you how long things would be if the intestines were straight

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    Phendrena
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaafuc...

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    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like if I eat the unhealthy choices, I'll become a badass terminator kid... and if I eat healthy, I'll become Mark

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now we know how the earth looks from space.

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    Hans
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This on is quite helpful in understanding that typical world maps are misleading when it comes to country sizes.

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    Vorknkx
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yikes, this baby looks like it could bite the man's head off :O

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This must be from a seagull instruction manual for Cornish Seagull. Kill you for a chip they will.

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    IFXO
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this gobbled my mind before the PlayStation could boggle it

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An illustration from "Chatting to Fish: a Breakthrough in Inter-Species Communication"

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not sure I'd want to be 'aware' in this situation

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Indistinguishable from "acute anxiety", which tells you a lot

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This told me more about dinosaur vomit than I really wanted to know

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just transpose 'disgusted' and 'happy' and you have the story of 2020

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    Satirical Duchess
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This sounds like something my science teacher would say

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    ThatOneCrazyFanGirl
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's his now, don't try to get it back or he attacks

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The bad old days before jingle toys and catnip mice

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ginger soared over the waves as Paul's frantic cries for help receded into the distance. He'd never really liked his owner anyway

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    Satirical Duchess
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have so many questions. the more I look at it the worse it gets

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cold cheese - rugged individualist Warm cheese - degenerate couch potato

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A cat's intelligence is directly related to its weight

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    IFXO
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    now that's one claustrophobic roll

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Rogue scientists make world's biggest omelette

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    Phendrena
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only five? Rubbish. I could easily shove 10 in my chops, no problem.

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Vastly inferior to the illustration in which it's saying "Bok"

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The mother is now doing time for child endangerment and confusing a baby with optical illusions

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    Satirical Duchess
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People... ik they said a soul patch is a good idea, but for the love of God... please no.

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    noralin
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hey, I have seen this one in a text book. It is supposed to demonstrate the areas of different senses in the brain. It shows how big portions different senses take in the human brain.

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep, I'm sure one thing leads directly to the other

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have no idea what this means yet I'm glad it exists

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Inflict terrible head injury, steal victim's chocolate

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This diagram replaced a colour photo which was deemed to be too harrowing

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hare = Uncle Dave, children's entertainer + Puffy Vapour

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There needs to be a comic based on this concept

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