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CRACKED.COM THE WORLD OF MINECRAFT HAS MORE SURFACE AREA THAN URANUS — Source

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CRACKED.COM IF THE MOON WAS AS BIG AS JUPITER, THIS IS HOW OUR NIGHT SKY WOULD LOOK — Source

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Tsar Bomba the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. The mushroom cloud is 59 miles high and 29 miles wide. Island of Manhattan 13.5 miles long Rhode Island 48 miles N to S CRACKED.COM — Source

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The atom is SO infinitesimally small that a single grain of sand contains more atoms than all the beaches of the world contain grains of sand CRACKED.COM — Source

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Amphicoelias Fragillimus, possibly the largest dinosaur that ever existed, giving a modern elephant a piggy back ride. GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Olympus Mons (Mars) Mount Everest CRACKED COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Sequoia seeds Grown sequoia — Source

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LARGEST BAT SMALLEST BAT Giant Kitti's Golden-Crowned Hog-Nosed Flying Fox Bat CRACKED COM — Source

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At 7-8mm in length, the Paedophryne amauensis frog from Papua New Guinea are the smallest known vertebrates on Earth. Here's one sitting on a dime. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM These tiny crystalline flowers are growing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial... ...on a penny. http://hyperallergic.com/72044/sculpting-the-tiniest-flowers-in-the-world-to-build-the-future-of-nanotechnologyl — Source

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This is an unretouched photograph N of Andre the IAN BEER Giant holding a standard مصر IN size beer can. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Within the wingspan of a single B-2 Stealth Bomber, You Could Fit: ... 172 Feet 3 F-14 Fighters 48 Feet 40 Feet 4 Wright Flyers 30 Honda Civics 6 Feet 114 Men Lined Up Shoulder to Shoulder H GRACKED COM 1.5 Feet — Source

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SINCE WE RARELY SEE EAGLES UP CLOSE, IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO VISUALIZE THAT THE FEET AND TALONS OF AN ADULT EAGLE... ARE THE SIZE OF AN ADULT HUMAN HAND. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Statue of Unity in India

597 ft. The Statue of Unity in India is so tall the Statue of Liberty could barely touch his knees with her torch. 152 ft. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THIS IS 25-YEAR-OLD JYOTI KISANJI AMGE, FROM INDIA, THE WORLD'S SHORTEST LIVING WOMAN AT JUST PRETTY 2 FEET mg 0.7 INCHES 15 (62.8 cm) TALL. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Just beyond these pillars... ...are the front doors to the U.S. National Archives. CRACKED.COM The bronze doors are over 37 feet tall. — Source

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Female Blanket Octopuses can grow up to 2 meters or 6 feet 6 inches. Their male counterpart, however, can grow only up to an inch. It's the largest known size difference between genders in the animal kingdom, with the female being 10,000 to 40,000 times heavier than the male. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Goliath birdeater tarantula is the largest spider in the world. It can weigh more than a newborn puppy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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This is Big Lonely Doug, Canada's second largest tree, seen from a distance. And this is Big Lonely Doug with a person climbing it. CRACKED COM — Source

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The Mona Lisa is tiny. At 31.3 inches by 21 inches, it's smaller than the average TV set. CRACKED.COM — Source

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1'7 CELTICS 55 Tacko Fall is one of the CELTICS 29 tallest NBA players of all time. (6'1 Carsen LAU Edwards) - player L3 Here's Fall's wingspan as compared to a standard gym door. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM The Great Pyramid of Giza compared to an adult human. — Source

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AUSTRALIA IS WIDER THAN THE MOON The moon has more square area, but Australia is almost 4000 kilometres, compared to the Moon's 3,475 km. CRACKED.COM — Source

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RUSSIA IS ABOUT THE SAME SIZE AS PLUTO Pluto's surface area is 17,646,012 km2, compared to Russia's 17,098,246 km². CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE QUETZALCOATLUS WAS AS TALL AS A GIRAFFE Quetzalcoatlus northropi Quetzalcoatlus sp. The Quetzalcoatlus is the largest known flying animal. It was a pterosaur with a wingspan of around 33 feet. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Egg Cells

HUMAN EGG CELLS ARE ABOUT AS WIDE AS A STRAND OF HAIR IS THICK The egg cell is the largest of the cells in the body. It can be seen without a microscope. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fleas

IF FLEAS WERE AS TALL AS PEOPLE, THEY COULD JUMP OVER 15 CARS And that's bumper to bumper. Fleas can jump 38 times their body length. CRACKED.COM — Source

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100,000,000 ATOMS IN A ROW WOULD BE ABOUT THE WIDTH OF YOUR FINGERNAIL An average atom is about 10-10 meters. For comparision, if the same number of standard pencils were laid end-to-end, they would wrap around the Earth's equator more than 47 times. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GIANT SQUIDS' EYES ARE BIGGER THAN BASKETBALLS Scientists believe they may have giant eyes to help them detect their giant predator, the sperm whale, while in the darkness of underwater. CRACKED.COM — Source

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