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Reminds me also of the "Up Goer Five". An xkcd poster which roughly explains Saturn V with only the top 1000 used words in English[0]. Even better IMO is the collab video with MinutePhysics[1].

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1133/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_8gx-XHJo


Randall Munroe (of xkcd) went on to write a full book in that style: https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/

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