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

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

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

But an egg isn't a child; eggs are unfertilized. It won't turn into a chicken.

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

I mean, it's unfertilized so it wouldn't count. What would count is something like the Filipino balut, which does have a duck fetus (that you eat)

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

I unfortunately learned about balut when watching Fear Factor. Didn’t bat an eye when contestants had to eat testicles or live bugs, but eating balut in front of live ducks? That disturbed me.

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

Technically not true in most places... the eggs are unfertilized. It does make me wonder though which gets eaten more of: lamb, or balut

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

Not as we usually obtain them. Eggs are unfertilized single-cells expelled regularly by the female. Hens just do this more frequently than women.

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

I am wondering about all the comments that eggs for eating are unfertilised? Here ist is quite common to find eggs that have been fertilised (if you buy organic, that is)...

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

I remember not quite understanding the concept that food eggs were unfertilized as a kid and drew a rather amusing drawing in art class in Fourth grade where a bunch of chicks were holding up signs protesting that the person was eating their sister or daughter. There was a mourning boyfriend too. All in front of a plate of a sunny side up egg with toast. I thought that drawing a still life of breakfast was boring and put my own spin on it. The art teacher loved it.

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

False. Chicken eggs bought in stores are not fertilized so will never become a chicken

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

Only if it's fertilized which store bought eggs are not (no rooster around to "assist" the ladies)

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

Well ... not that much of a lie, but ... as I get all the reasons to not eat eggs, and apply them, and stuff - it isn't the egg I care about then, it is the hens who are abused in industrial farmery.

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

I’ve never thought of it this way...*put more though into becoming vegan*

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

The eggs you buy at stores are infertilised which means they could never become a chicken. But the word fetus literally means unborn baby

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

I take pride in eating other species’s children

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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.

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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3 years ago DotsCreated 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

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3 years ago DotsCreated 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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3 years ago DotsCreated 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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3 years ago DotsCreated 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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3 years ago DotsCreated 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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3 years ago DotsCreated 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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3 years ago DotsCreated 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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3 years ago DotsCreated 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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3 years ago DotsCreated 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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3 years ago DotsCreated 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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3 years ago DotsCreated 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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3 years ago DotsCreated 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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3 years ago DotsCreated 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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